Live Play Data

Thundermaw Hellkite

· Creature — Dragon · Iconic Masters (IMA)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

277

Decks Running

104

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

66%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=40

13%

50%

T6-9

20%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 15

On curve 30% (5 / 40 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 26%

The "good card" funnel

277 brought · 100 players

Brought to game

277

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 70% 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.

≥ -13.8pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=38) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=174).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=16).

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 +1.3pp; 95% confidence interval -13.8pp to +16.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

71 instances

4.2%

Library

39.4%

Battlefield

25.4%

Graveyard

5.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Thundermaw Hellkite

Creature — Dragon

Flying Haste (This creature can attack and {T}

as soon as it comes under your control.) When this creature enters, it deals 1 damage to each creature with flying your opponents control. Tap those creatures.

5 / 5

Iconic Masters (IMA) · Mythic · Illustrated by Svetlin Velinov

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 710,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.