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An Unexpected Party // At the Door

· Enchantment // Sorcery — Adventure · The Hobbit (HOB)

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Times Brought

265

Decks Running

124

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

An Unexpected Party

Enchantment

As this enchantment enters, choose a creature type. Creatures you control of the chosen type get +2/+2.

At the Door

Sorcery — Adventure

Create X 2/2 red Dwarf creature tokens. (Then exile this card. You may cast the enchantment later from exile.)

The Hobbit (HOB) · Rare · Illustrated by Matt Stewart

Final zone distribution

50 instances

4.0%

Library

30.0%

Battlefield

20.0%

Graveyard

16.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

265 brought · 116 players

Brought to game

265

Ever drawn

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.

≥ -4.4pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=18) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=150).

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 +7.9pp; 95% confidence interval -4.4pp to +20.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=28

11%

68%

T6-9

14%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 8 · max 12

Cast same turn as drawn 21%

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.