Live Play Data

Steel Hellkite

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1721

Decks Running

786

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

63%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=256

14%

56%

T6-9

19%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 17

On curve 41% (40 / 256 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 29%

The "good card" funnel

1724 brought · 691 players

Brought to game

1724

Ever drawn

404

Reached battlefield

256

Still on board at game end

119

Once cast, 46% 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.

≥ +3.3pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=228) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=1105).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 24% (n=125).

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 +9.4pp; 95% confidence interval +3.3pp to +15.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

437 instances

3.2%

Library

27.2%

Battlefield

32.7%

Graveyard

7.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sai, Master Thopterist 73 decks
2 The Ur-Dragon 58 decks
3 Zhulodok, Void Gorger 57 decks
4 Ureni of the Unwritten 53 decks
5 Atarka, World Render 45 decks
6 Kaalia of the Vast 28 decks
7 Nelly Borca, Impulsive Accuser 21 decks
8 Eshki, Temur's Roar 20 decks
9 Firkraag, Cunning Instigator 20 decks
10 Chiss-Goria, Forge Tyrant 19 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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.