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

999

Decks Running

454

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

47%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=123

10%

11%

17%

46%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 7% (6 / 123 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 41%

The "good card" funnel

999 brought · 423 players

Brought to game

999

Ever drawn

264

Reached battlefield

123

Still on board at game end

≥ +3.7pp

Players who cast this card win 38% of the time (n=115) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=570).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 44% (n=122).

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 +12.5pp; 95% confidence interval +3.7pp to +21.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

301 instances

3.0%

Library

3.7%

Battlefield

43.9%

Graveyard

14.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Fire Lord Azula 59 decks
2 Vivi Ornitier 30 decks
3 Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy 21 decks
4 Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh 21 decks
5 Tymna the Weaver 20 decks
6 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 18 decks
7 Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima 17 decks
8 Urza, Lord High Artificer 12 decks
9 Marneus Calgar 11 decks
10 Krark, the Thumbless 10 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 710,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.