Live Play Data

Fall of Gil-galad

· Enchantment — Saga · The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

127

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

—

Drawn → Played

76%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=19

Not enough observed casts yet to show a reliable distribution.

The "good card" funnel

127 brought · 61 players

Brought to game

127

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -13.6pp

Players who cast this card win 22% of the time (n=19) , vs 17% when it never left the library (n=92).

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 +5.4pp; 95% confidence interval -13.6pp to +24.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

28 instances

10.7%

Library

25.0%

Battlefield

50.0%

Graveyard

3.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Tom Bombadil 20 decks
2 Garnet, Princess of Alexandria 8 decks
3 Sigurd, Jarl of Ravensthorpe 4 decks
4 Elrond, Master of Healing 3 decks
5 Galadriel, Light of Valinor 3 decks
6 Narci, Fable Singer 3 decks
7 Agatha of the Vile Cauldron 2 decks
8 Havi, the All-Father 2 decks
9 Thranduil, the Elvenking 2 decks
10 Wolverine, Best There Is 2 decks

Card text

Fall of Gil-galad

Enchantment — Saga

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.) I — Scry 2. II — Put two +1/+1 counters on target creature you control. III — Until end of turn, target creature you control gains "When this creature dies, draw two cards." Then that creature fights up to one other target creature.

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

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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.