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Call of the Ring

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

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Times Brought

1195

Decks Running

480

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

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

Final zone distribution

277 instances

1.1%

Library

58.5%

Battlefield

19.5%

Graveyard

3.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

1196 brought · 417 players

Brought to game

1196

Ever drawn

255

Reached battlefield

184

Still on board at game end

162

Once cast, 88% 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.

≥ -4.1pp

Players who cast this card win 24% of the time (n=139) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=666).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 21% (n=56).

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 +0.4pp; 95% confidence interval -4.1pp to +4.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=184

22%

15%

10%

12%

32%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 19

On curve 24% (40 / 184 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 34%

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 780,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.