Live Play Data

Bofur, Reliable Guardian // Concerted Care

· Legendary Creature — Dwarf Scout // Instant — Adventure · The Hobbit (HOB)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

655

Decks Running

253

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

73%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=105

10%

14%

43%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 9% (9 / 105 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 43%

The "good card" funnel

655 brought · 223 players

Brought to game

655

Ever drawn

143

Reached battlefield

105

Still on board at game end

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.

≥ -6.5pp

Players who cast this card win 23% of the time (n=90) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=428).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 27% (n=32).

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 +2.2pp; 95% confidence interval -6.5pp to +10.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

154 instances

5.2%

Library

28.6%

Battlefield

35.1%

Graveyard

11.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Thorin, King of Durin's Folk 109 decks
2 Dáin of the Ancient Halls 46 decks
3 Thorin Oakenshield 11 decks
4 Dwalin, Weaponmaster 8 decks
5 Bifur, Melodic Rider 6 decks
6 Arabella, Abandoned Doll 3 decks
7 Aragorn, the Uniter 3 decks
8 Bruenor Battlehammer 3 decks
9 Koll, the Forgemaster 3 decks
10 Abigale, Poet Laureate // Heroic Stanza 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) · 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 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.