Live Play Data

Bilbo, Unexpected Adventurer

· Legendary Creature — Halfling Rogue · The Hobbit Eternal (HOC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

143

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

70%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=25

16%

20%

52%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 10

On curve 20% (4 / 25 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 29%

The "good card" funnel

143 brought · 48 players

Brought to game

143

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.

≥ -17.7pp

Players who cast this card win 36% of the time (n=21) , vs 33% when it never left the library (n=91).

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 -17.7pp to +23.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

34 instances

2.9%

Library

32.4%

Battlefield

32.4%

Graveyard

5.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Bilbo, Unexpected Adventurer

Legendary Creature — Halfling Rogue

Bilbo can't be blocked by creatures with power 3 or greater. Whenever Bilbo deals combat damage to a player or battle, put up to one target nonland permanent card with mana value 3 or less from a graveyard onto the battlefield under its owner's control.

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The Hobbit Eternal (HOC) · Mythic · Illustrated by Marius Bota

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.