Live Play Data

Steel Hellkite

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

594

Decks Running

295

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

63%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=87

64%

T6-9

20%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 17

On curve 34% (16 / 87 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 36%

The "good card" funnel

597 brought · 261 players

Brought to game

597

Ever drawn

138

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

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.

≥ +4.9pp

Players who cast this card win 37% of the time (n=76) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=390).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 29% (n=42).

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 +15.5pp; 95% confidence interval +4.9pp to +26.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

149 instances

4.0%

Library

28.2%

Battlefield

37.6%

Graveyard

7.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Ureni of the Unwritten 31 decks
2 Zhulodok, Void Gorger 26 decks
3 The Ur-Dragon 22 decks
4 Atarka, World Render 13 decks
5 Kaalia of the Vast 13 decks
6 Nelly Borca, Impulsive Accuser 9 decks
7 Chiss-Goria, Forge Tyrant 7 decks
8 Eshki, Temur's Roar 7 decks
9 Agatha of the Vile Cauldron 6 decks
10 Rivaz of the Claw 6 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 670,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.