Live Play Data

Bard, King of Dale

· Legendary Creature — Human Noble Archer · The Hobbit (HOB)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

448

Decks Running

192

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

52%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=134

11%

22%

51%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 7 · max 21

On curve 57% (24 / 134 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 37%

The "good card" funnel

449 brought · 179 players

Brought to game

449

Ever drawn

122

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 60% 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.

≥ +1.0pp

Players who cast this card win 38% of the time (n=60) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=269).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 24% (n=51).

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 +13.2pp; 95% confidence interval +1.0pp to +25.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

131 instances

1.5%

Library

29.0%

Battlefield

26.0%

Graveyard

5.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Bard, King of Dale

Legendary Creature — Human Noble Archer

Reach, vigilance If you would draw a card except the first one you draw in each of your draw steps, draw two cards instead. If one or more tokens would be created under your control, twice that many of those tokens are created instead.

3 / 5

The Hobbit (HOB) · Mythic · Illustrated by Xabi Gaztelua

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.