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Barad-dûr

Legendary Land · The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR)

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Times Brought

366

Decks Running

176

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

Barad-dûr

Legendary Land

Barad-dûr enters tapped unless you control a legendary creature. {T}

: Add

: Amass Orcs X. Activate only if a creature died this turn.

The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR) · Rare · Illustrated by Sean Vo

Final zone distribution

93 instances

1.1%

Library

75.3%

Battlefield

12.9%

Graveyard

2.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sauron, the Dark Lord 56 decks
2 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 23 decks
3 Saruman, the White Hand 12 decks
4 Sauron, Lord of the Rings 12 decks
5 The Great Goblin 10 decks
6 Sméagol, Helpful Guide 9 decks
7 Lord of the Nazgûl 5 decks
8 Bolg, Erebor's Reckoning 4 decks
9 Go-Shintai of Life's Origin 3 decks
10 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

366 brought · 159 players

Brought to game

366

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 96% 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.

≥ -8.9pp

Players who cast this card win 22% of the time (n=61) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=201).

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 -2.1pp; 95% confidence interval -8.9pp to +4.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=73

27%

11%

10%

29%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 1 · P75 7 · max 11

Cast same turn as drawn 67%

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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.