Live Play Data

Vastwood Hydra

· Creature — Hydra · Commander 2020 (C20)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

186

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

—

Drawn → Played

39%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=18

Not enough observed casts yet to show a reliable distribution.

The "good card" funnel

186 brought · 75 players

Brought to game

186

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -16.5pp

Players who cast this card win 22% of the time (n=18) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=132).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 21% (n=25).

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 +1.8pp; 95% confidence interval -16.5pp to +20.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

49 instances

6.1%

Library

14.3%

Battlefield

26.5%

Graveyard

12.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Zaxara, the Exemplary 32 decks
2 Gargos, Vicious Watcher 16 decks
3 Polukranos Reborn // Polukranos, Engine of Ruin 5 decks
4 Otrimi, the Ever-Playful 3 decks
5 Zimone, Infinite Analyst 3 decks
6 Kruphix, God of Horizons 2 decks
7 Magus Lucea Kane 2 decks
8 Anzrag, the Quake-Mole 1 decks
9 Arwen, Weaver of Hope 1 decks
10 Gyrus, Waker of Corpses 1 decks

Card text

Vastwood Hydra

Creature — Hydra

This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. When this creature dies, you may distribute a number of +1/+1 counters equal to the number of +1/+1 counters on this creature among any number of creatures you control.

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Commander 2020 (C20) · Rare · Illustrated by Slawomir Maniak

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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.