Live Play Data

Gandalf's Sanction

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

123

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

—

Drawn → Played

41%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=11

Not enough observed casts yet to show a reliable distribution.

The "good card" funnel

123 brought · 64 players

Brought to game

123

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Final zone distribution

32 instances

3.1%

Library

65.6%

Graveyard

9.4%

Exile

21.9%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Gandalf, Party Guest 12 decks
2 The Emperor of Palamecia // The Lord Master of Hell 10 decks
3 Vivi Ornitier 10 decks
4 Melek, Reforged Researcher 5 decks
5 Gandalf of the Secret Fire 4 decks
6 Prismari, the Inspiration 4 decks
7 Saruman, the White Hand 3 decks
8 Aragorn, the Uniter 2 decks
9 Gandalf the Grey 2 decks
10 Ghyrson Starn, Kelermorph 2 decks

Card text

Gandalf's Sanction

Sorcery

Gandalf's Sanction deals X damage to target creature, where X is the number of instant and sorcery cards in your graveyard. Excess damage is dealt to that creature's controller instead.

The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Tatiana Veryayskaya

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.