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Live Play Data

Steel Hellkite

{6} · Artifact Creature — Dragon · Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC)
1%
Live Inclusion
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Times Brought
1139
Decks Running
529
Median Cast Turn
7.0
Drawn → Played
64%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=162
0%
T1
1%
T2
4%
T3
6%
T4
16%
T5
57%
T6-9
15%
T10+
Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 17
On curve 41% (22 / 162 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 30%

The "good card" funnel

1142 brought · 468 players
Brought to game
1142
Ever drawn
252
Reached battlefield
162
Still on board at game end
77

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.

≥ +2.8pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=144) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=756).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 24% (n=76).

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 +10.4pp; 95% confidence interval +2.8pp to +18.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

280 instances
2.9%
Library
27.5%
Battlefield
35.4%
Graveyard
7.9%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Steel Hellkite card

Steel Hellkite

{6}
Artifact Creature — Dragon
Flying {2}: 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.
5 / 5
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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.