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Fiery Inscription

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

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

376

Decks Running

213

In Decks

1662

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Fiery Inscription

Enchantment

When this enchantment enters, the Ring tempts you. Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, this enchantment deals 2 damage to each opponent.

The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR) · Uncommon · Illustrated by John Di Giovanni

Final zone distribution

115 instances

0.9%

Library

51.3%

Battlefield

20.0%

Graveyard

7.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sauron, Lord of the Rings 39 decks
2 Sauron, the Dark Lord 28 decks
3 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 21 decks
4 Vivi Ornitier 12 decks
5 Saruman, the White Hand 9 decks
6 Feather, the Redeemed 8 decks
7 Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might // Temple of Power 7 decks
8 Aragorn, the Uniter 5 decks
9 Judith, Carnage Connoisseur 5 decks
10 Fire Lord Azula 4 decks

The "good card" funnel

377 brought · 192 players

Brought to game

377

Ever drawn

105

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 78% 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.

≥ +1.7pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=71) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=228).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 22% (n=28) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +13.0pp; 95% confidence interval +1.7pp to +24.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=76

12%

21%

37%

T6-9

12%

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 18

On curve 24% (9 / 76 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 32%

76 of 100 times cast 76%

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Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.