Live Play Data

Steel Hellkite

· Artifact Creature — Dragon · Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

2240

Decks Running

1001

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

64%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=348

11%

60%

T6-9

21%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 18

On curve 35% (57 / 348 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 30%

The "good card" funnel

2243 brought · 868 players

Brought to game

2243

Ever drawn

546

Reached battlefield

348

Still on board at game end

166

Once cast, 48% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.

≥ +1.4pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=312) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=1422).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=169).

Read this as correlation, not as the card's contribution. Casting a card means you lived long enough to cast it, so this gap widens with mana value across every card we track.

Observed gap +6.5pp; 95% confidence interval +1.4pp to +11.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

590 instances

2.9%

Library

28.1%

Battlefield

32.7%

Graveyard

6.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sai, Master Thopterist 112 decks
2 Ureni of the Unwritten 73 decks
3 Zhulodok, Void Gorger 69 decks
4 The Ur-Dragon 60 decks
5 Atarka, World Render 57 decks
6 Kaalia of the Vast 35 decks
7 Nelly Borca, Impulsive Accuser 29 decks
8 Dack Fayden, Helping Hand 28 decks
9 Firkraag, Cunning Instigator 25 decks
10 Eshki, Temur's Roar 24 decks

Card text

Steel Hellkite

Artifact Creature — Dragon

Flying

: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn. {X}

: Destroy each nonland permanent with mana value X whose controller was dealt combat damage by this creature this turn. Activate only once each turn.

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Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC) · Rare · Illustrated by James Paick

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games, and the full charts need a sample of at least 25 observed games that is not dominated by a single pilot. Until this card clears those bars you're seeing only the basic counts. Stats refresh nightly.

How is Playgroup Live card data collected?

Players using Playgroup Live import their decklists before a game and log card actions as they play. Each cast, zone change, and resolution is recorded as a real game event. Stats on this site are computed from those events, not from decklist scrapes or theorycrafting. Playgroup has recorded 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.