Live Play Data

Bifur, Melodic Rider

· Legendary Creature — Dwarf Bard · The Hobbit (HOB)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

497

Decks Running

201

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

66%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=81

11%

12%

57%

T6-9

14%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 12

On curve 47% (14 / 81 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 35%

The "good card" funnel

497 brought · 178 players

Brought to game

497

Ever drawn

107

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 54% 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.

≥ -8.0pp

Players who cast this card win 23% of the time (n=58) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=317).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 14% (n=28).

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 +3.0pp; 95% confidence interval -8.0pp to +14.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

117 instances

4.3%

Library

32.5%

Battlefield

31.6%

Graveyard

6.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Thorin, King of Durin's Folk 111 decks
2 Dáin of the Ancient Halls 49 decks
3 Dwalin, Weaponmaster 8 decks
4 Thorin Oakenshield 7 decks
5 Bruenor Battlehammer 4 decks
6 Vihaan, Goldwaker 4 decks
7 Cadric, Soul Kindler 3 decks
8 Giott, King of the Dwarves 3 decks
9 Cayth, Famed Mechanist 2 decks
10 Koll, the Forgemaster 2 decks

Card text

Bifur, Melodic Rider

Legendary Creature — Dwarf Bard

Storied (If you control three or more artifacts, legendaries, and/or Sagas, you have an enduring story for the rest of the game.) Whenever Bifur enters or attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. As long as you have an enduring story, if a triggered ability of a Dwarf you control triggers, that ability triggers an additional time.

4 / 5

The Hobbit (HOB) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Kieran Yanner

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.