Live Play Data

Dáin of the Ancient Halls

· Legendary Creature — Dwarf Noble · The Hobbit Eternal (HOC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

291

Decks Running

107

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

58%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=151

10%

25%

55%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 7 · max 18

On curve 38% (37 / 151 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 38%

The "good card" funnel

291 brought · 95 players

Brought to game

291

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

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.

≥ -3.6pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=32) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=189).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 13% (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 +12.8pp; 95% confidence interval -3.6pp to +29.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

68 instances

1.5%

Library

29.4%

Battlefield

25.0%

Graveyard

8.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Dáin of the Ancient Halls

Legendary Creature — Dwarf Noble

Vigilance, haste Whenever Dáin attacks, he deals damage equal to the number of Dwarves you control to each opponent.

4 / 5

The Hobbit Eternal (HOC) · Mythic · Illustrated by Manuel Castañón

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.