Live Play Data

Borne Upon a Wind

· Instant · The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1400

Decks Running

614

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

47%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=166

10%

17%

49%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 14

On curve 7% (7 / 166 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 39%

The "good card" funnel

1400 brought · 552 players

Brought to game

1400

Ever drawn

356

Reached battlefield

166

Still on board at game end

≥ +5.9pp

Players who cast this card win 40% of the time (n=154) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=823).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 43% (n=167).

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 +13.7pp; 95% confidence interval +5.9pp to +21.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

416 instances

3.1%

Library

3.6%

Battlefield

44.5%

Graveyard

16.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Fire Lord Azula 80 decks
2 Vivi Ornitier 38 decks
3 Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima 28 decks
4 Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh 25 decks
5 Tymna the Weaver 24 decks
6 Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy 23 decks
7 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 21 decks
8 Urza, Lord High Artificer 17 decks
9 Marneus Calgar 15 decks
10 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 13 decks

Card text

Borne Upon a Wind

Instant

You may cast spells this turn as though they had flash. Draw a card.

The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR) · Rare · Illustrated by Alexander Mokhov

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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.