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Voracious Hydra

· Creature — Hydra · Core Set 2020 (M20)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

300

Decks Running

143

In Decks

914

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Final zone distribution

75 instances

5.3%

Library

25.3%

Battlefield

36.0%

Graveyard

4.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Leonardo, the Balance 31 decks
2 Zaxara, the Exemplary 24 decks
3 Zimone, Infinite Analyst 17 decks
4 Heroes in a Half Shell 16 decks
5 Magus Lucea Kane 11 decks
6 Gargos, Vicious Watcher 9 decks
7 Polukranos Reborn // Polukranos, Engine of Ruin 5 decks
8 Primo, the Unbounded 3 decks
9 Thranduil the Strategist 3 decks
10 Animar, Soul of Elements 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

300 brought · 134 players

Brought to game

300

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 46% 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.

≥ -4.3pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=38) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=197).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 11% (n=25) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +9.3pp; 95% confidence interval -4.3pp to +22.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=41

17%

15%

59%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 7 · max 10

Cast same turn as drawn 38%

41 of 100 times cast 41%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 640,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.