Live Play Data

Voracious Hydra

· Creature — Hydra · Core Set 2020 (M20)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1094

Decks Running

448

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

60%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=150

14%

61%

T6-9

14%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 13

Cast same turn as drawn 29%

The "good card" funnel

1094 brought · 422 players

Brought to game

1094

Ever drawn

250

Reached battlefield

150

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.

≥ -1.9pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=137) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=731).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 20% (n=87).

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 +5.5pp; 95% confidence interval -1.9pp to +12.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

276 instances

3.3%

Library

27.2%

Battlefield

31.9%

Graveyard

6.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Leonardo, the Balance 76 decks
2 Zaxara, the Exemplary 76 decks
3 Heroes in a Half Shell 49 decks
4 Zimone, Infinite Analyst 45 decks
5 Gargos, Vicious Watcher 36 decks
6 Magus Lucea Kane 32 decks
7 Animar, Soul of Elements 12 decks
8 Helga, Skittish Seer 8 decks
9 Primo, the Unbounded 8 decks
10 Polukranos Reborn // Polukranos, Engine of Ruin 7 decks

Card text

Voracious Hydra

Creature — Hydra

Trample This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. When this creature enters, choose one — • Double the number of +1/+1 counters on this creature. • This creature fights target creature you don't control.

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Core Set 2020 (M20) · Rare · Illustrated by Wayne Reynolds

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.