Live Play Data

Ulvenwald Hydra

· Creature — Hydra · Jumpstart (JMP)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

235

Decks Running

117

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

67%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=32

47%

38%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 13

On curve 63% (3 / 32 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 27%

The "good card" funnel

235 brought · 115 players

Brought to game

235

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 50% 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.

≥ -2.2pp

Players who cast this card win 36% of the time (n=31) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=157).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 33% (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 +14.4pp; 95% confidence interval -2.2pp to +31.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

56 instances

3.6%

Library

28.6%

Battlefield

39.3%

Graveyard

5.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Omo, Queen of Vesuva 25 decks
2 Gargos, Vicious Watcher 15 decks
3 Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait 5 decks
4 Gilanra, Caller of Wirewood 5 decks
5 Loot, Exuberant Explorer 5 decks
6 Alena, Kessig Trapper 4 decks
7 Ashaya, Soul of the Wild 4 decks
8 Zaxara, the Exemplary 4 decks
9 The Gitrog, Ravenous Ride 3 decks
10 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness 2 decks

Card text

Ulvenwald Hydra

Creature — Hydra

Reach Ulvenwald Hydra's power and toughness are each equal to the number of lands you control. When this creature enters, you may search your library for a land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

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Jumpstart (JMP) · Mythic · Illustrated by Raymond Swanland

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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.