Live Play Data

Bilbo, Birthday Celebrant

· Legendary Creature — Halfling Rogue · Tales of Middle-earth Commander (LTC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

128

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

72%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=46

15%

17%

37%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 11

On curve 22% (7 / 46 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 24%

The "good card" funnel

128 brought · 64 players

Brought to game

128

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 48% 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.

≥ -22.0pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=20) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=86).

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 -1.0pp; 95% confidence interval -22.0pp to +20.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

29 instances

34.5%

Battlefield

44.8%

Graveyard

6.9%

Exile

13.8%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Bilbo, Birthday Celebrant

Legendary Creature — Halfling Rogue

If you would gain life, you gain that much life plus 1 instead. {2}

, Exile Bilbo: Search your library for any number of creature cards, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle. Activate only if you have 111 or more life.

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Tales of Middle-earth Commander (LTC) · Rare · Illustrated by Billy Christian

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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.