Live Play Data

Gimli of the Glittering Caves

· Legendary Creature — Dwarf Warrior · Tales of Middle-earth Commander (LTC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

276

Decks Running

138

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

66%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=41

24%

17%

29%

T6-9

15%

T10+

Median 4 P25 3 · P75 8 · max 18

On curve 34% (10 / 41 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 34%

The "good card" funnel

276 brought · 121 players

Brought to game

276

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.

≥ -20.2pp

Players who cast this card win 15% of the time (n=33) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=161).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 17% (n=15).

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 -7.5pp; 95% confidence interval -20.2pp to +5.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

69 instances

4.3%

Library

26.1%

Battlefield

39.1%

Graveyard

2.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Éowyn, Shieldmaiden 24 decks
2 Dáin of the Ancient Halls 15 decks
3 Thorin, King of Durin's Folk 14 decks
4 Norin the Wary 12 decks
5 Magda, Brazen Outlaw 7 decks
6 Aragorn, King of Gondor 6 decks
7 Aragorn, the Uniter 6 decks
8 Gornog, the Red Reaper 4 decks
9 Jodah, the Unifier 3 decks
10 Joshua, Phoenix's Dominant // Phoenix, Warden of Fire 3 decks

Card text

Gimli of the Glittering Caves

Legendary Creature — Dwarf Warrior

Double strike Whenever another legendary creature you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on Gimli. Whenever Gimli deals combat damage to a player, create a Treasure token.

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Tales of Middle-earth Commander (LTC) · Rare · Illustrated by Sidharth Chaturvedi

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.