Live Play Data

Field-Tested Frying Pan

· Artifact — Equipment · Tales of Middle-earth Commander (LTC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

198

Decks Running

108

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

55%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=23

30%

48%

T6-9

17%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 23

On curve 4% (1 / 23 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 30%

The "good card" funnel

198 brought · 104 players

Brought to game

198

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 87% 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.

≥ -1.2pp

Players who cast this card win 41% of the time (n=19) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=129).

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 +20.0pp; 95% confidence interval -1.2pp to +41.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

44 instances

2.3%

Library

45.5%

Battlefield

18.2%

Graveyard

4.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Field-Tested Frying Pan

Artifact — Equipment

When this Equipment enters, create a Food token, then create a 1/1 white Halfling creature token and attach this Equipment to it. Equipped creature has "Whenever you gain life, this creature gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the amount of life you gained." Equip {2}

Tales of Middle-earth Commander (LTC) · Rare · Illustrated by Nino Is

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.