Live Play Data

Bard's Company

· Creature — Human Citizen · The Hobbit (HOB)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

131

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

—

Drawn → Played

63%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=19

Not enough observed casts yet to show a reliable distribution.

The "good card" funnel

131 brought · 58 players

Brought to game

131

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -2.0pp

Players who cast this card win 39% of the time (n=19) , vs 18% when it never left the library (n=84).

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 +21.3pp; 95% confidence interval -2.0pp to +44.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

32 instances

3.1%

Library

40.6%

Battlefield

25.0%

Graveyard

31.3%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Bard, King of Dale 28 decks
2 Aragorn, the Uniter 7 decks
3 Éowyn, Shieldmaiden 7 decks
4 Aragorn, King of Gondor 5 decks
5 Whtz, the Bibliophile 2 decks
6 Denzilore Fatehold 1 decks
7 Gandalf, Party Guest 1 decks
8 Goldbug, Humanity's Ally // Goldbug, Scrappy Scout 1 decks
9 Harbin, Vanguard Aviator 1 decks
10 Kynaios and Tiro of Meletis 1 decks

Card text

Bard's Company

Creature — Human Citizen

You may cast this spell as though it had flash if you control a Human. Other creatures you control get +1/+1. Whenever this creature enters or attacks, recruit. (Draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded a nonland card, create a 1/1 white Human Soldier creature token.)

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The Hobbit (HOB) · Rare · Illustrated by Jarel Threat

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.