Live Play Data

Galadhrim Ambush

· Instant · Tales of Middle-earth Commander (LTC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

702

Decks Running

342

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

50%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=66

62%

T6-9

20%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 15

On curve 12% (5 / 66 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 12%

The "good card" funnel

702 brought · 322 players

Brought to game

702

Ever drawn

133

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -1.4pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=63) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=479).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=63).

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 +9.2pp; 95% confidence interval -1.4pp to +19.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

148 instances

1.4%

Library

4.1%

Battlefield

49.3%

Graveyard

5.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Galadhrim Ambush

Instant

Create X 1/1 green Elf Warrior creature tokens, where X is the number of attacking creatures. Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn by non-Elf creatures.

Tales of Middle-earth Commander (LTC) · Rare · Illustrated by John Di Giovanni

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.