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Part of The Hobbit
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Legendary Creature — Dwarf Scout // Instant — Adventure
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The Hobbit (HOB)
Live Play Data
Bofur, Reliable Guardian // Concerted Care
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Legendary Creature — Dwarf Scout // Instant — Adventure
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The Hobbit (HOB)
1%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
501
Decks Running
215
Median Cast Turn
6.0
Drawn → Played
76%
Format
First-cast turn
n=82
13%
T1
6%
T2
5%
T3
13%
T4
11%
T5
41%
T6-9
10%
T10+
Median
6.0
P25
4
· P75
8
· max
14
On curve
13%
(11 / 82 cast on T1)
Cast same turn as drawn
47%
The "good card" funnel
501 brought · 192 playersBrought to game
501
Ever drawn
108
Reached battlefield
82
Still on board at game end
36
Once cast, 44% 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 21% of the time (n=69) , vs 19% when it never left the library (n=329).
When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 13% (n=21).
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 +1.8pp; 95% confidence interval -8.0pp to +11.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
Final zone distribution
116 instances6.0%
Library
31.0%
Battlefield
35.3%
Graveyard
10.3%
Exile
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
Thorin, King of Durin's Folk
100 decks
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2
Dáin of the Ancient Halls
38 decks
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3
Thorin Oakenshield
7 decks
-
4
Bifur, Melodic Rider
6 decks
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5
Dwalin, Weaponmaster
6 decks
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6
Arabella, Abandoned Doll
3 decks
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7
Aragorn, the Uniter
3 decks
-
8
Bruenor Battlehammer
3 decks
-
9
Aerith Gainsborough
2 decks
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10
Ardbert, Warrior of Darkness
2 decks
Card text
Bofur, Reliable Guardian
Legendary Creature — Dwarf Scout
Lifelink
1 / 1
Concerted Care
Instant — Adventure
Target artifact or creature you control gains hexproof and indestructible until end of turn. (Then exile this card. You may cast the creature later from exile.)
The Hobbit (HOB)
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Uncommon
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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.