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Steel Hellkite

{6} · Artifact Creature — Dragon · Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC)
Times Brought
1079
Decks Running
588
In Decks
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Decklist Inclusion
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Format

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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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

Final zone distribution

225 instances
3.6%
Library
34.2%
Battlefield
22.2%
Graveyard
4.9%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

1083 brought · 509 players
Brought to game
1083
Ever drawn
216
Reached battlefield
129
Still on board at game end
77

Once cast, 60% 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.

≥ -3.5pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=93) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=603).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 20% (n=61).

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 +1.9pp; 95% confidence interval -3.5pp to +7.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=129
2%
T1
1%
T2
4%
T3
13%
T4
11%
T5
59%
T6-9
11%
T10+
Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 13
On curve 57% (35 / 129 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 37%

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.