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Part of Tales of Middle-earth
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Legendary Creature — Avatar Wizard
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The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR)
Live Play Data
Gandalf, Friend of the Shire
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Legendary Creature — Avatar Wizard
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The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR)
1%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
252
Decks Running
126
Median Cast Turn
6
Drawn → Played
55%
Format
First-cast turn
n=33
0%
T1
3%
T2
6%
T3
12%
T4
15%
T5
52%
T6-9
12%
T10+
Median
6
P25
5
· P75
9
· max
14
On curve
21%
(4 / 33 cast on T4)
Cast same turn as drawn
17%
The "good card" funnel
252 brought · 119 playersBrought to game
252
Ever drawn
56
Reached battlefield
31
Still on board at game end
14
Once cast, 45% 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.
≥ -17.8pp
Players who cast this card win 13% of the time (n=26) , vs 17% when it never left the library (n=156).
When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 21% (n=24).
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 -5.0pp; 95% confidence interval -17.8pp to +7.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
Final zone distribution
72 instances2.8%
Library
19.4%
Battlefield
50.0%
Graveyard
5.6%
Exile
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
Lord of the Nazgûl
32 decks
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2
Gandalf, Party Guest
22 decks
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3
Sauron, the Dark Lord
15 decks
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4
Gandalf of the Secret Fire
6 decks
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5
Aragorn, the Uniter
5 decks
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6
Saruman of Many Colors
4 decks
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7
Bilbo, Thief in the Night
3 decks
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8
Saruman, the White Hand
3 decks
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9
Tom Bombadil
3 decks
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10
Bard, King of Dale
2 decks
Card text
Gandalf, Friend of the Shire
Legendary Creature — Avatar Wizard
Flash
You may cast sorcery spells as though they had flash.
Whenever the Ring tempts you, if you chose a creature other than Gandalf as your Ring-bearer, draw a card.
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The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR)
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Uncommon
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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 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.