Live Play Data

Fiery Inscription

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

597

Decks Running

329

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

69%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=109

22%

40%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 18

On curve 19% (10 / 109 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

The "good card" funnel

598 brought · 294 players

Brought to game

598

Ever drawn

158

Reached battlefield

109

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 77% 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.

≥ +4.5pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=102) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=358).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=45).

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 +13.9pp; 95% confidence interval +4.5pp to +23.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

178 instances

1.7%

Library

47.2%

Battlefield

22.5%

Graveyard

7.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sauron, Lord of the Rings 50 decks
2 Sauron, the Dark Lord 44 decks
3 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 30 decks
4 Vivi Ornitier 23 decks
5 Saruman, the White Hand 18 decks
6 Feather, the Redeemed 11 decks
7 Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might // Temple of Power 10 decks
8 Judith, Carnage Connoisseur 9 decks
9 Massimo, the Magician 8 decks
10 Fire Lord Azula 6 decks

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

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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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.