Live Play Data

Champions of Minas Tirith

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

282

Decks Running

134

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

61%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=39

18%

62%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 41% (6 / 39 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 27%

The "good card" funnel

282 brought · 128 players

Brought to game

282

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 49% 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.

≥ -19.8pp

Players who cast this card win 21% of the time (n=34) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=179).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 9% (n=22).

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 -6.1pp; 95% confidence interval -19.8pp to +7.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

70 instances

4.3%

Library

27.1%

Battlefield

24.3%

Graveyard

5.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Champions of Minas Tirith

Creature — Human Soldier

When this creature enters, you become the monarch. At the beginning of combat on each opponent's turn, if you're the monarch, that opponent may pay {X}

, where X is the number of cards in their hand. If they don't, they can't attack you this combat.

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Tales of Middle-earth Commander (LTC) · Rare · Illustrated by Tatiana Kirgetova

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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.