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Live Play Data

Gandalf the White

{3} {W} {W} · Legendary Creature — Avatar Wizard · The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR)
1%
Live Inclusion
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Times Brought
226
Decks Running
131
Median Cast Turn
7.0
Drawn → Played
64%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=46
0%
T1
0%
T2
2%
T3
9%
T4
20%
T5
50%
T6-9
20%
T10+
Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 14
On curve 30% (9 / 46 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 22%

The "good card" funnel

226 brought · 122 players
Brought to game
226
Ever drawn
61
Reached battlefield
39
Still on board at game end
19

Once cast, 49% 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.

≥ +6.2pp

Players who cast this card win 39% of the time (n=35) , vs 17% when it never left the library (n=131).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 7% (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 +22.0pp; 95% confidence interval +6.2pp to +37.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

67 instances
1.5%
Library
28.4%
Battlefield
31.3%
Graveyard
6.0%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Gandalf the White card

Gandalf the White

{3} {W} {W}
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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.