Live Play Data

Call for Aid

· Sorcery · Tales of Middle-earth Commander (LTC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

278

Decks Running

123

Median Cast Turn

8.0

Drawn → Played

43%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=26

58%

T6-9

31%

T10+

Median 8.0 P25 6 · P75 10 · max 13

On curve 12% (2 / 26 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 31%

The "good card" funnel

278 brought · 111 players

Brought to game

278

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -17.8pp

Players who cast this card win 23% of the time (n=25) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=179).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=29).

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 -1.7pp; 95% confidence interval -17.8pp to +14.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

67 instances

10.4%

Battlefield

37.3%

Graveyard

4.5%

Exile

47.8%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Call for Aid

Sorcery

Gain control of all creatures target opponent controls until end of turn. Untap those creatures. They gain haste until end of turn. You can't attack that player this turn. You can't sacrifice those creatures this turn.

Tales of Middle-earth Commander (LTC) · Rare · Illustrated by Nino Is

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.