Live Play Data

Banishing Light

· Enchantment · The Hobbit Eternal (HOC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

257

Decks Running

120

Median Cast Turn

6.5

Drawn → Played

62%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=36

14%

25%

50%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 6.5 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 11

On curve 0% (0 / 36 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 21%

The "good card" funnel

257 brought · 112 players

Brought to game

257

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 69% 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.

≥ -19.8pp

Players who cast this card win 14% of the time (n=33) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=165).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 24% (n=20).

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 -7.7pp; 95% confidence interval -19.8pp to +4.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

62 instances

40.3%

Battlefield

21.0%

Graveyard

1.6%

Exile

37.1%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Éowyn, Shieldmaiden 25 decks
2 Isperia, Supreme Judge 11 decks
3 Aragorn, King of Gondor 4 decks
4 Kangee, Sky Warden 4 decks
5 Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines 3 decks
6 Pantlaza, Sun-Favored 3 decks
7 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 2 decks
8 Kaalia of the Vast 2 decks
9 Kastral, the Windcrested 2 decks
10 Ragost, Deft Gastronaut 2 decks

Card text

Banishing Light

Enchantment

When this enchantment enters, exile target nonland permanent an opponent controls until this enchantment leaves the battlefield.

The Hobbit Eternal (HOC) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Joseph Meehan

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 670,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.