Live Play Data

Gandalf the White

· Legendary Creature — Avatar Wizard · The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

517

Decks Running

247

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

67%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=108

10%

17%

56%

T6-9

17%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 14

On curve 28% (18 / 108 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 29%

The "good card" funnel

517 brought · 232 players

Brought to game

517

Ever drawn

126

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 57% 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.

≥ -0.5pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=77) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=318).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 11% (n=38).

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 +10.0pp; 95% confidence interval -0.5pp to +20.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

137 instances

2.9%

Library

35.0%

Battlefield

24.8%

Graveyard

6.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Peter Parker // Amazing Spider-Man 25 decks
2 Jodah, the Unifier 19 decks
3 Aragorn, the Uniter 18 decks
4 Thorin, King of Durin's Folk 17 decks
5 Gandalf, Party Guest 13 decks
6 Yoshimaru, Ever Faithful 10 decks
7 Ratadrabik of Urborg 9 decks
8 Rocco, Cabaretti Caterer 8 decks
9 Serah Farron // Crystallized Serah 7 decks
10 Samwise Gamgee 5 decks

Card text

Gandalf the White

Legendary Creature — Avatar Wizard

Flash You may cast legendary spells and artifact spells as though they had flash. If a legendary permanent or an artifact entering or leaving the battlefield causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.

4 / 5

The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR) · Mythic · Illustrated by Magali Villeneuve

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.