Live Play Data

Bard the Bowman

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

208

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

78%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=46

11%

48%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 12

On curve 22% (5 / 46 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 15%

The "good card" funnel

208 brought · 67 players

Brought to game

208

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 46% 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.

≥ -13.6pp

Players who cast this card win 18% of the time (n=42) , vs 18% when it never left the library (n=129).

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 -0.6pp; 95% confidence interval -13.6pp to +12.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

64 instances

3.1%

Library

32.8%

Battlefield

42.2%

Graveyard

4.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Bard, King of Dale 25 decks
2 Éowyn, Shieldmaiden 10 decks
3 Whtz, the Bibliophile 6 decks
4 King T'Challa // Black Panther, Hope Enduring 4 decks
5 Ms. Bumbleflower 4 decks
6 Aragorn, King of Gondor 2 decks
7 Galadriel, Light of Valinor 2 decks
8 Gandalf, Party Guest 2 decks
9 Morska, Undersea Sleuth 2 decks
10 Mr. Foxglove 2 decks

Card text

Bard the Bowman

Legendary Creature — Human Archer

Reach Whenever you draw your second card each turn, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. It gains lifelink until end of turn.

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The Hobbit (HOB) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Miklós Ligeti

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.