Live Play Data

Warden of the Grove

· Creature — Hydra · Tarkir: Dragonstorm (TDM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

414

Decks Running

167

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

67%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=69

23%

13%

39%

T6-9

12%

T10+

Median 6 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 13

On curve 29% (16 / 69 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 27%

The "good card" funnel

414 brought · 159 players

Brought to game

414

Ever drawn

103

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 54% 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.

≥ -8.7pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=67) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=285).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 17% (n=31).

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 +2.8pp; 95% confidence interval -8.7pp to +14.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

110 instances

1.8%

Library

33.6%

Battlefield

31.8%

Graveyard

7.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Warden of the Grove

Creature — Hydra

At the beginning of your end step, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Whenever another nontoken creature you control enters, it endures X, where X is the number of counters on this creature. (Put X +1/+1 counters on the creature that entered or create an X/X white Spirit creature token.)

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Tarkir: Dragonstorm (TDM) · Rare · Illustrated by Alexander Ostrowski

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 670,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.