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Part of Tales of Middle-earth
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Legendary Creature — Halfling Citizen
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The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR)
: If Frodo is a Citizen, it becomes a Halfling Scout with base power and toughness 2/3 and lifelink.
: If Frodo is a Scout, it becomes a Halfling Rogue with "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player loses the game if the Ring has tempted you four or more times this game. Otherwise, the Ring tempts you."
Live Play Data
Frodo, Sauron's Bane
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Legendary Creature — Halfling Citizen
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The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR)
0%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
129
Decks Running
29
Median Cast Turn
4.5
Drawn → Played
78%
Format
First-cast turn
n=34
18%
T1
9%
T2
12%
T3
12%
T4
18%
T5
26%
T6-9
6%
T10+
Median
4.5
P25
2
· P75
6
· max
12
On curve
18%
(6 / 34 cast on T1)
Cast same turn as drawn
40%
The "good card" funnel
129 brought · 43 playersBrought to game
129
Ever drawn
32
Reached battlefield
25
Still on board at game end
10
Once cast, 40% 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.
≥ -16.0pp
Players who cast this card win 41% of the time (n=24) , vs 36% when it never left the library (n=83).
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 +4.8pp; 95% confidence interval -16.0pp to +25.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
Final zone distribution
34 instances5.9%
Library
29.4%
Battlefield
41.2%
Graveyard
8.8%
Exile
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit
21 decks
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2
Sam, Loyal Attendant
13 decks
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3
Jodah, the Unifier
3 decks
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4
Bilbo, Birthday Celebrant
1 decks
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5
Ezio Auditore da Firenze
1 decks
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6
Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima
1 decks
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7
MacCready, Lamplight Mayor
1 decks
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8
Merry, Warden of Isengard
1 decks
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9
Tom Bombadil
1 decks
Card text
Frodo, Sauron's Bane
Legendary Creature — Halfling Citizen
: If Frodo is a Citizen, it becomes a Halfling Scout with base power and toughness 2/3 and lifelink.
: If Frodo is a Scout, it becomes a Halfling Rogue with "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player loses the game if the Ring has tempted you four or more times this game. Otherwise, the Ring tempts you."1 / 2
The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR)
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Rare
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Illustrated by Dmitry Burmak
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.