Live Play Data

Cavern-Hoard Dragon

· Creature — Dragon · Tales of Middle-earth Commander (LTC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1309

Decks Running

583

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

64%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=202

16%

62%

T6-9

14%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 8 · max 18

On curve 86% (21 / 202 cast on T9) Cast same turn as drawn 32%

The "good card" funnel

1310 brought · 513 players

Brought to game

1310

Ever drawn

314

Reached battlefield

202

Still on board at game end

108

Once cast, 53% 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.

≥ +5.6pp

Players who cast this card win 39% of the time (n=179) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=833).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 19% (n=99).

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 +13.0pp; 95% confidence interval +5.6pp to +20.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

350 instances

3.7%

Library

30.9%

Battlefield

30.9%

Graveyard

8.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Cavern-Hoard Dragon

Creature — Dragon

This spell costs {X}

less to cast, where X is the greatest number of artifacts an opponent controls. Flying, trample, haste Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you create a Treasure token for each artifact that player controls.

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Tales of Middle-earth Commander (LTC) · Rare · Illustrated by Antonio José Manzanedo

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.