Live Play Data

Elvish Mariner

· Creature — Elf Pilot · The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

122

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

—

Drawn → Played

61%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=19

Not enough observed casts yet to show a reliable distribution.

The "good card" funnel

122 brought · 70 players

Brought to game

122

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -21.8pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=17) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=83).

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 -0.6pp; 95% confidence interval -21.8pp to +20.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

33 instances

6.1%

Library

33.3%

Battlefield

27.3%

Graveyard

3.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Elvish Mariner

Creature — Elf Pilot

Whenever this creature attacks, scry 1. Whenever you scry, tap up to X target nonland permanents, where X is the number of cards looked at while scrying this way.

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The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR) · Rare · Illustrated by Axel Sauerwald

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 710,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.