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Part of Tales of Middle-earth
Live Play Data
Barad-dûr
Legendary Land
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The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR)
2%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
1358
Decks Running
557
Median Cast Turn
5
Drawn → Played
78%
Format
First-cast turn
n=279
20%
T1
8%
T2
9%
T3
13%
T4
13%
T5
32%
T6-9
6%
T10+
Median
5
P25
2
· P75
7
· max
17
Cast same turn as drawn
55%
The "good card" funnel
1358 brought · 477 playersBrought to game
1358
Ever drawn
356
Reached battlefield
279
Still on board at game end
259
Once cast, 93% 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.
≥ -3.3pp
Players who cast this card win 24% of the time (n=259) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=811).
When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 21% (n=68).
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 +2.0pp; 95% confidence interval -3.3pp to +7.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
Final zone distribution
403 instances5.0%
Library
64.3%
Battlefield
13.9%
Graveyard
4.7%
Exile
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
Sauron, the Dark Lord
199 decks
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2
Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel
47 decks
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3
The Great Goblin
38 decks
-
4
Saruman, the White Hand
28 decks
-
5
Sauron, Lord of the Rings
22 decks
-
6
Lord of the Nazgûl
18 decks
-
7
Sméagol, Helpful Guide
17 decks
-
8
Dihada, Binder of Wills
9 decks
-
9
Marneus Calgar
8 decks
-
10
Ardbert, Warrior of Darkness
7 decks
Card text
Barad-dûr
Legendary Land
Barad-dûr enters tapped unless you control a legendary creature.
: Add .
, : Amass Orcs X. Activate only if a creature died this turn.
: Add .
, : Amass Orcs X. Activate only if a creature died this turn.
The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR)
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Rare
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Illustrated by Sean Vo
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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.