Live Play Data

Down in the Valley

· Enchantment — Saga · The Hobbit (HOB)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

172

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

5.5

Drawn → Played

76%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=28

14%

18%

11%

39%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 5.5 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 10

On curve 21% (2 / 28 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

The "good card" funnel

172 brought · 86 players

Brought to game

172

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 57% 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.

≥ -18.6pp

Players who cast this card win 9% of the time (n=27) , vs 16% when it never left the library (n=114).

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 -6.7pp; 95% confidence interval -18.6pp to +5.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

46 instances

8.7%

Library

34.8%

Battlefield

34.8%

Graveyard

6.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Thranduil, the Elvenking 21 decks
2 Thranduil the Strategist 8 decks
3 Tom Bombadil 8 decks
4 Galadriel, Light of Valinor 6 decks
5 Thranduil, Sindarin Liege // Silvan Rally 5 decks
6 Garnet, Princess of Alexandria 3 decks
7 Lathril, Blade of the Elves 3 decks
8 Radagast of Rhosgobel 3 decks
9 Rhys the Redeemed 3 decks
10 High Perfect Morcant 2 decks

Card text

Down in the Valley

Enchantment — Saga

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after IV.) I — Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. II — This Saga gains "Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, create a 1/1 green Elf creature token." III, IV — Elves you control get +1/+0 and gain vigilance until end of turn.

The Hobbit (HOB) · Rare · Illustrated by Rovina Cai

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.