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Whiptongue Hydra

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

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Times Brought

580

Decks Running

294

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

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

Final zone distribution

94 instances

2.1%

Library

24.5%

Battlefield

18.1%

Graveyard

7.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Ghalta, Primal Hunger 210 decks
2 Gargos, Vicious Watcher 17 decks
3 Chishiro, the Shattered Blade 12 decks
4 Lord Windgrace 8 decks
5 Radagast of Rhosgobel 4 decks
6 Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider 4 decks
7 Polukranos Reborn // Polukranos, Engine of Ruin 3 decks
8 Bristly Bill, Spine Sower 2 decks
9 Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma 2 decks
10 Helga, Skittish Seer 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

580 brought · 284 players

Brought to game

580

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 59% 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.

≥ -12.3pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=26) , vs 31% when it never left the library (n=313).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 24% (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 -2.2pp; 95% confidence interval -12.3pp to +7.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=39

67%

T6-9

21%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 13

On curve 49% (14 / 39 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 22%

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.