Live Play Data

Gathering of Darkness

· Sorcery · The Hobbit (HOB)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

193

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

64%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=23

78%

T6-9

T10+

Median 8 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 10

On curve 4% (1 / 23 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 35%

The "good card" funnel

193 brought · 90 players

Brought to game

193

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -11.7pp

Players who cast this card win 12% of the time (n=21) , vs 10% when it never left the library (n=125).

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 +2.1pp; 95% confidence interval -11.7pp to +15.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

46 instances

6.5%

Library

56.5%

Graveyard

8.7%

Exile

28.3%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Gathering of Darkness

Sorcery

Return up to one target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. Amass Goblins 3. (Put three +1/+1 counters on an Army you control. It's also a Goblin. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Goblin Army creature token first.)

The Hobbit (HOB) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Pavel Kolomeyets

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.