Live Play Data

Erebor Flamesmith

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

285

Decks Running

165

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

81%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=51

22%

12%

10%

39%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 2 · P75 8 · max 13

On curve 25% (11 / 51 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 40%

The "good card" funnel

285 brought · 157 players

Brought to game

285

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 55% 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.

≥ +7.7pp

Players who cast this card win 44% of the time (n=47) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=195).

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 +22.6pp; 95% confidence interval +7.7pp to +37.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

66 instances

3.0%

Library

42.4%

Battlefield

33.3%

Graveyard

6.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Ghyrson Starn, Kelermorph 42 decks
2 Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might // Temple of Power 21 decks
3 Judith, Carnage Connoisseur 9 decks
4 Niv-Mizzet, Parun 7 decks
5 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 6 decks
6 Feather, the Redeemed 5 decks
7 Fire Lord Azula 4 decks
8 Magda, Brazen Outlaw 4 decks
9 Gandalf of the Secret Fire 3 decks
10 Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin 3 decks

Card text

Erebor Flamesmith

Creature — Dwarf Artificer

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, this creature deals 1 damage to each opponent.

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The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR) · Common · Illustrated by L J Koh

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.