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Ulvenwald Hydra

· Creature — Hydra · Jumpstart (JMP)

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Times Brought

376

Decks Running

176

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

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

Final zone distribution

104 instances

1.9%

Library

51.0%

Battlefield

13.5%

Graveyard

3.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

376 brought · 163 players

Brought to game

376

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 77% 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.

≥ +1.6pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=58) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=207).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=24).

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 +8.7pp; 95% confidence interval +1.6pp to +15.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=69

22%

58%

T6-9

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 13

On curve 49% (11 / 69 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 39%

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.