Live Play Data

Whiptongue Hydra

· Creature — Lizard Hydra · Neon Dynasty Commander (NEC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

404

Decks Running

226

Median Cast Turn

8.0

Drawn → Played

57%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=62

66%

T6-9

29%

T10+

Median 8.0 P25 7 · P75 10 · max 13

On curve 16% (7 / 62 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 34%

The "good card" funnel

404 brought · 223 players

Brought to game

404

Ever drawn

109

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 47% 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.

≥ +4.0pp

Players who cast this card win 36% of the time (n=56) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=238).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 17% (n=39).

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 +16.8pp; 95% confidence interval +4.0pp to +29.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

114 instances

1.8%

Library

25.4%

Battlefield

33.3%

Graveyard

3.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Ghalta, Primal Hunger 126 decks
2 Gargos, Vicious Watcher 20 decks
3 Chishiro, the Shattered Blade 11 decks
4 Lord Windgrace 8 decks
5 Zaxara, the Exemplary 6 decks
6 Bristly Bill, Spine Sower 3 decks
7 Polukranos Reborn // Polukranos, Engine of Ruin 3 decks
8 Progenitus 3 decks
9 Radagast of Rhosgobel 3 decks
10 Animar, Soul of Elements 2 decks

Card text

Whiptongue Hydra

Creature — Lizard Hydra

Reach When this creature enters, destroy all creatures with flying. Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature for each creature destroyed this way.

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Neon Dynasty Commander (NEC) · Rare · Illustrated by Tomasz Jedruszek

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.