Live Play Data

Glamdring

· Legendary Artifact — Equipment · The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

208

Decks Running

100

Median Cast Turn

3.5

Drawn → Played

65%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=32

16%

13%

22%

T6-9

16%

T10+

Median 3.5 P25 2 · P75 8 · max 16

On curve 28% (4 / 32 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 60%

The "good card" funnel

208 brought · 90 players

Brought to game

208

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 72% 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.

≥ -17.8pp

Players who cast this card win 15% of the time (n=28) , vs 19% when it never left the library (n=122).

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 -3.9pp; 95% confidence interval -17.8pp to +10.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

63 instances

36.5%

Battlefield

41.3%

Graveyard

7.9%

Exile

14.3%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Saruman, the White Hand 15 decks
2 Lord of the Nazgûl 11 decks
3 Gandalf, Party Guest 9 decks
4 Gandalf, Goblins' Bane // Flameshape 4 decks
5 Thorin, King of Durin's Folk 4 decks
6 Vivi Ornitier 4 decks
7 Aragorn, the Uniter 3 decks
8 Gandalf of the Secret Fire 3 decks
9 Gandalf the Grey 3 decks
10 The Scarlet Witch 3 decks

Card text

Glamdring

Legendary Artifact — Equipment

Equipped creature has first strike and gets +1/+0 for each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard. Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you may cast an instant or sorcery spell from your hand with mana value less than or equal to that damage without paying its mana cost. Equip {3}

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

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 710,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.