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Bard the Bowman

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

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Times Brought

112

Decks Running

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

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

Final zone distribution

25 instances

4.0%

Library

28.0%

Battlefield

28.0%

Graveyard

4.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Bard, King of Dale 16 decks
2 Éowyn, Shieldmaiden 6 decks
3 Whtz, the Bibliophile 6 decks
4 Aragorn, the Uniter 5 decks
5 Aragorn, King of Gondor 3 decks
6 Ms. Bumbleflower 3 decks
7 King T'Challa // Black Panther, Hope Enduring 2 decks
8 Bard, Heir of Girion 1 decks
9 Brago, King Eternal 1 decks
10 Denzilore Fatehold 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

113 brought · 57 players

Brought to game

113

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

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.