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Voracious Hydra

· Creature — Hydra · Core Set 2020 (M20)

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Times Brought

532

Decks Running

253

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

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

Final zone distribution

102 instances

2.0%

Library

36.3%

Battlefield

21.6%

Graveyard

6.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Leonardo, the Balance 60 decks
2 Zaxara, the Exemplary 41 decks
3 Heroes in a Half Shell 38 decks
4 Zimone, Infinite Analyst 26 decks
5 Gargos, Vicious Watcher 18 decks
6 Magus Lucea Kane 13 decks
7 Polukranos Reborn // Polukranos, Engine of Ruin 5 decks
8 Primo, the Unbounded 5 decks
9 Bristly Bill, Spine Sower 3 decks
10 Hamza, Guardian of Arashin 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

533 brought · 245 players

Brought to game

533

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 61% 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.

≥ -6.5pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=48) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=311).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 31% (n=33).

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 +1.1pp; 95% confidence interval -6.5pp to +8.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=61

16%

15%

54%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 12

Cast same turn as drawn 24%

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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.