Live Play Data

Call of the Ring

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1106

Decks Running

475

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

70%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=191

18%

16%

13%

35%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 14

On curve 22% (35 / 191 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 39%

The "good card" funnel

1111 brought · 428 players

Brought to game

1111

Ever drawn

273

Reached battlefield

191

Still on board at game end

159

Once cast, 83% 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.

≥ -2.1pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=171) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=677).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 33% (n=75).

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 +4.6pp; 95% confidence interval -2.1pp to +11.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

298 instances

3.0%

Library

53.4%

Battlefield

24.2%

Graveyard

3.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sauron, the Dark Lord 195 decks
2 Lord of the Nazgûl 52 decks
3 Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit 43 decks
4 Sméagol, Helpful Guide 34 decks
5 Sam, Loyal Attendant 20 decks
6 Obeka, Splitter of Seconds 10 decks
7 Frodo, Sauron's Bane 7 decks
8 Sauron, Lord of the Rings 7 decks
9 Vincent Valentine // Galian Beast 5 decks
10 Etrata, Deadly Fugitive 4 decks

Card text

Call of the Ring

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, the Ring tempts you. Whenever you choose a creature as your Ring-bearer, you may pay 2 life. If you do, draw a card.

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

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.