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Boromir, Warden of the Tower

· Legendary Creature — Human Soldier · The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR)

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Times Brought

870

Decks Running

439

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

Boromir, Warden of the Tower

Legendary Creature — Human Soldier

Vigilance Whenever an opponent casts a spell, if no mana was spent to cast it, counter that spell. Sacrifice Boromir: Creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn. The Ring tempts you.

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

Final zone distribution

159 instances

4.4%

Library

37.1%

Battlefield

26.4%

Graveyard

5.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Jodah, the Unifier 38 decks
2 Aragorn, the Uniter 34 decks
3 Éowyn, Shieldmaiden 34 decks
4 Winota, Joiner of Forces 34 decks
5 Aragorn, King of Gondor 16 decks
6 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 15 decks
7 Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit 14 decks
8 Ardbert, Warrior of Darkness 12 decks
9 Myrel, Shield of Argive 11 decks
10 Terra, Herald of Hope 11 decks

The "good card" funnel

870 brought · 406 players

Brought to game

870

Ever drawn

152

Reached battlefield

106

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 56% 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.

≥ -2.3pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=87) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=528).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=25).

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 +3.3pp; 95% confidence interval -2.3pp to +8.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=106

13%

20%

11%

41%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 12

On curve 22% (14 / 106 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 26%

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.