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Live Play Data

Gandalf the Grey

{3} {U} {R} · Legendary Creature — Avatar Wizard · The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR)
1%
Live Inclusion
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Times Brought
192
Decks Running
98
Median Cast Turn
6
Drawn → Played
54%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=33
3%
T1
3%
T2
6%
T3
6%
T4
24%
T5
48%
T6-9
9%
T10+
Median 6 P25 5 · P75 7 · max 11
On curve 42% (8 / 33 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 26%

The "good card" funnel

192 brought · 89 players
Brought to game
192
Ever drawn
50
Reached battlefield
27
Still on board at game end
14

Once cast, 52% 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.

≥ -3.4pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=25) , vs 14% when it never left the library (n=122).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 21% (n=19).

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 +14.9pp; 95% confidence interval -3.4pp to +33.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

51 instances
3.9%
Library
27.5%
Battlefield
29.4%
Graveyard
3.9%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Gandalf the Grey card

Gandalf the Grey

{3} {U} {R}
Legendary Creature — Avatar Wizard
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, choose one that hasn't been chosen — • You may tap or untap target permanent. • Gandalf deals 3 damage to each opponent. • Copy target instant or sorcery spell you control. You may choose new targets for the copy. • Put Gandalf on top of its owner's library.
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The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR) · Rare · Illustrated by Aaron Miller

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.