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Bofur, Reliable Guardian // Concerted Care

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

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Times Brought

320

Decks Running

142

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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

Final zone distribution

52 instances

42.3%

Battlefield

23.1%

Graveyard

5.8%

Exile

28.8%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

320 brought · 133 players

Brought to game

320

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 65% 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.

≥ -5.4pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=29) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=203).

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 +4.4pp; 95% confidence interval -5.4pp to +14.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=34

24%

12%

44%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 2 · P75 7 · max 12

On curve 24% (8 / 34 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 69%

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.