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Gilraen, Dúnedain Protector

· Legendary Creature — Human Noble · Tales of Middle-earth Commander (LTC)

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Times Brought

187

Decks Running

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

Card text

Gilraen, Dúnedain Protector

Legendary Creature — Human Noble

: Exile another target creature you control. You may return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control. If you don't, at the beginning of the next end step, return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control with a vigilance counter and a lifelink counter on it.

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Tales of Middle-earth Commander (LTC) · Rare · Illustrated by Marie Magny

Final zone distribution

37 instances

32.4%

Battlefield

35.1%

Graveyard

2.7%

Exile

29.7%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Éowyn, Shieldmaiden 42 decks
2 Aragorn, King of Gondor 16 decks
3 Syr Vondam, Sunstar Exemplar 6 decks
4 Aragorn, the Uniter 2 decks
5 Abigale, Eloquent First-Year 1 decks
6 Arthur, Marigold Knight 1 decks
7 Arwen, Mortal Queen 1 decks
8 Boromir, Gondor's Hope 1 decks
9 Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines 1 decks
10 Gandalf the White 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

187 brought · 76 players

Brought to game

187

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 44% 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.

≥ -6.6pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=17) , vs 30% when it never left the library (n=114).

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 +5.5pp; 95% confidence interval -6.6pp to +17.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=27

19%

11%

26%

T6-9

22%

T10+

Median 5 P25 4 · P75 9 · max 12

On curve 22% (5 / 27 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 19%

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.