Live Play Data

Dáin, Lord of the Iron Hills

· Legendary Creature — Dwarf Noble · The Hobbit (HOB)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

732

Decks Running

259

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

88%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=146

14%

13%

14%

36%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 13

On curve 14% (21 / 146 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 44%

The "good card" funnel

732 brought · 225 players

Brought to game

732

Ever drawn

166

Reached battlefield

146

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 60% 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.

≥ -3.3pp

Players who cast this card win 24% of the time (n=129) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=458).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 11% (n=18).

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 +4.3pp; 95% confidence interval -3.3pp to +11.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

177 instances

1.7%

Library

49.7%

Battlefield

35.0%

Graveyard

6.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Thorin, King of Durin's Folk 106 decks
2 Dáin of the Ancient Halls 54 decks
3 Thorin Oakenshield 11 decks
4 Dwalin, Weaponmaster 9 decks
5 Bifur, Melodic Rider 7 decks
6 Bruenor Battlehammer 5 decks
7 Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER 4 decks
8 Bard, King of Dale 3 decks
9 Cadric, Soul Kindler 3 decks
10 Koll, the Forgemaster 3 decks

Card text

Dáin, Lord of the Iron Hills

Legendary Creature — Dwarf Noble

Vigilance Storied (If you control three or more artifacts, legendaries, and/or Sagas, you have an enduring story for the rest of the game.) As long as you have an enduring story, creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays {1}

for each of those creatures.

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The Hobbit (HOB) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Tomas Duchek

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.