Live Play Data

Whiptongue Hydra

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

164

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

56%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=23

57%

T6-9

35%

T10+

Median 9 P25 7 · P75 10 · max 13

On curve 22% (3 / 23 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 24%

The "good card" funnel

164 brought · 89 players

Brought to game

164

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 43% 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.

≥ -1.6pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=22) , vs 16% when it never left the library (n=106).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 7% (n=17).

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 +18.4pp; 95% confidence interval -1.6pp to +38.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

44 instances

4.5%

Library

22.7%

Battlefield

36.4%

Graveyard

4.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Gargos, Vicious Watcher 18 decks
2 Ghalta, Primal Hunger 16 decks
3 Chishiro, the Shattered Blade 10 decks
4 Zaxara, the Exemplary 6 decks
5 Bristly Bill, Spine Sower 3 decks
6 Lord Windgrace 3 decks
7 Progenitus 3 decks
8 Animar, Soul of Elements 2 decks
9 Gyrus, Waker of Corpses 2 decks
10 Jenova, Ancient Calamity 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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.