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Live Play Data

Bilbo, Luckwearer // Burglar's Plot

{1} {U} {4} {U} · Legendary Creature — Halfling Rogue // Sorcery — Adventure · The Hobbit (HOB)
1%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
172
Decks Running
92
Median Cast Turn
6
Drawn → Played
62%
Format

First-cast turn

n=31
6%
T1
23%
T2
6%
T3
3%
T4
10%
T5
48%
T6-9
3%
T10+
Median 6 P25 2 · P75 7 · max 10
On curve 29% (7 / 31 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 44%

The "good card" funnel

172 brought · 86 players
Brought to game
172
Ever drawn
50
Reached battlefield
31
Still on board at game end
13

Once cast, 42% 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.

≥ -8.2pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=29) , vs 18% when it never left the library (n=100).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 44% (n=17).

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 +8.7pp; 95% confidence interval -8.2pp to +25.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

54 instances
1.9%
Library
24.1%
Battlefield
40.7%
Graveyard
3.7%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Bilbo, Luckwearer // Burglar's Plot card

Bilbo, Luckwearer

{1} {U}
Legendary Creature — Halfling Rogue
Bilbo can't be blocked. Whenever Bilbo deals combat damage to a player, draw a card, then discard a card.
1 / 1

Burglar's Plot

{4} {U}
Sorcery — Adventure
Exchange control of two target nonland permanents that share a card type. (Then exile this card. You may cast the creature later from exile.)
The Hobbit (HOB) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Anna Steinbauer

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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.