Live Play Data

Glóin, Dwarf Emissary

· Legendary Creature — Dwarf Advisor · The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1033

Decks Running

414

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

76%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=168

10%

14%

11%

17%

39%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 16

On curve 25% (24 / 168 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 35%

The "good card" funnel

1033 brought · 372 players

Brought to game

1033

Ever drawn

222

Reached battlefield

168

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 54% 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.

≥ +1.0pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=144) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=680).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 21% (n=49).

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 +8.3pp; 95% confidence interval +1.0pp to +15.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

240 instances

2.5%

Library

37.9%

Battlefield

35.4%

Graveyard

8.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Thorin, King of Durin's Folk 105 decks
2 Dáin of the Ancient Halls 46 decks
3 Smaug the Magnificent 37 decks
4 Magda, Brazen Outlaw 22 decks
5 Aragorn, the Uniter 15 decks
6 Knuckles the Echidna 11 decks
7 Smaug the Impenetrable 11 decks
8 Smaug, Wicked Worm 10 decks
9 Jodah, the Unifier 7 decks
10 Alexios, Deimos of Kosmos 6 decks

Card text

Glóin, Dwarf Emissary

Legendary Creature — Dwarf Advisor

Whenever you cast a historic spell, create a Treasure token. This ability triggers only once each turn. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.) {T}

, Sacrifice a Treasure: Goad target creature. (Until your next turn, that creature attacks each combat if able and attacks a player other than you if able.)

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The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR) · Rare · Illustrated by Tomas Duchek

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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.