Live Play Data

Along the Crooked Way

· Enchantment · The Hobbit (HOB)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

228

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

7.5

Drawn → Played

64%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=30

80%

T6-9

T10+

Median 7.5 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 12

On curve 0% (0 / 30 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 36%

The "good card" funnel

228 brought · 89 players

Brought to game

228

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 83% 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.

≥ -6.0pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=26) , vs 18% when it never left the library (n=144).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 4% (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 +10.8pp; 95% confidence interval -6.0pp to +27.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

59 instances

42.4%

Battlefield

28.8%

Graveyard

3.4%

Exile

25.4%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 The Great Goblin 28 decks
2 Sauron, the Dark Lord 24 decks
3 Saruman, the White Hand 6 decks
4 Bolg, Erebor's Reckoning 4 decks
5 Sauron, Lord of the Rings 4 decks
6 Great Goblin, Foul-Hearted 3 decks
7 Grub, Storied Matriarch // Grub, Notorious Auntie 2 decks
8 Muldrotha, the Gravetide 2 decks
9 Terra, Herald of Hope 2 decks
10 Alesha, Who Laughs at Fate 1 decks

Card text

Along the Crooked Way

Enchantment

When this enchantment enters, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. Whenever a creature card leaves your graveyard, amass Goblins 1. {1}

: Goblins and Orcs you control gain menace until end of turn.

The Hobbit (HOB) · Rare · Illustrated by Bruce Brenneise

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.