Live Play Data

Crown of Gondor

· Legendary Artifact — Equipment · Tales of Middle-earth Commander (LTC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

490

Decks Running

211

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

68%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=85

22%

15%

14%

39%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 6 · max 12

On curve 28% (19 / 85 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 23%

The "good card" funnel

490 brought · 193 players

Brought to game

490

Ever drawn

125

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 65% 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.

≥ -1.7pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=80) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=304).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 18% (n=34).

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 +8.5pp; 95% confidence interval -1.7pp to +18.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

137 instances

2.2%

Library

40.1%

Battlefield

24.1%

Graveyard

6.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Crown of Gondor

Legendary Artifact — Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each creature you control. When a legendary creature you control enters, if there is no monarch, you become the monarch. Equip {4}

. This ability costs {3}

less to activate if you're the monarch.

Tales of Middle-earth Commander (LTC) · Rare · Illustrated by Jarel Threat

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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.