Live Play Data

Gandalf, Shadow's Foe

· Legendary Creature — Avatar Wizard · The Hobbit Eternal (HOC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

220

Decks Running

101

Median Cast Turn

6.5

Drawn → Played

62%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=42

10%

24%

57%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.5 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 11

On curve 69% (8 / 42 cast on T7) Cast same turn as drawn 32%

The "good card" funnel

220 brought · 92 players

Brought to game

220

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 58% 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.

≥ -3.6pp

Players who cast this card win 37% of the time (n=32) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=140).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 44% (n=21).

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 +14.6pp; 95% confidence interval -3.6pp to +32.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

65 instances

4.6%

Library

32.3%

Battlefield

30.8%

Graveyard

4.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Gandalf, Shadow's Foe

Legendary Creature — Avatar Wizard

Vigilance When Gandalf enters, exile up to three target lands you control, then return them to the battlefield tapped under their owner's control. Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, draw a card and put a +1/+1 counter on Gandalf.

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The Hobbit Eternal (HOC) · Mythic · Illustrated by Alexander Mokhov

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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.