Live Play Data

Bard, King of Dale

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

277

Decks Running

134

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

53%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=95

21%

54%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 7 · max 21

On curve 55% (17 / 95 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

The "good card" funnel

278 brought · 125 players

Brought to game

278

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 62% 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.

≥ +9.2pp

Players who cast this card win 47% of the time (n=36) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=171).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=30).

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 +24.7pp; 95% confidence interval +9.2pp to +40.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

77 instances

31.2%

Battlefield

23.4%

Graveyard

7.8%

Exile

37.7%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Éowyn, Shieldmaiden 18 decks
2 Whtz, the Bibliophile 13 decks
3 Hashaton, Scarab's Fist 10 decks
4 Marneus Calgar 10 decks
5 Kynaios and Tiro of Meletis 8 decks
6 Aragorn, the Uniter 7 decks
7 Brenard, Ginger Sculptor 6 decks
8 Galadriel, Light of Valinor 5 decks
9 King T'Challa // Black Panther, Hope Enduring 4 decks
10 Aragorn, King of Gondor 3 decks

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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.