Live Play Data

Glóin the Mighty // Easy Pickings

· Legendary Creature — Dwarf Warrior // Sorcery — Adventure · The Hobbit (HOB)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

638

Decks Running

247

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

65%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=85

25%

18%

35%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 13

On curve 38% (21 / 85 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 26%

The "good card" funnel

638 brought · 213 players

Brought to game

638

Ever drawn

130

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 52% 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.

≥ -0.1pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=76) , vs 18% when it never left the library (n=421).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 9% (n=38).

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 +10.6pp; 95% confidence interval -0.1pp to +21.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

145 instances

4.8%

Library

30.3%

Battlefield

24.8%

Graveyard

13.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Thorin, King of Durin's Folk 95 decks
2 Dáin of the Ancient Halls 41 decks
3 Bifur, Melodic Rider 9 decks
4 Thorin Oakenshield 7 decks
5 Smaug the Impenetrable 6 decks
6 Aragorn, the Uniter 4 decks
7 Balin, Loremaster 4 decks
8 Beluna Grandsquall // Seek Thrills 4 decks
9 Dwalin, Weaponmaster 4 decks
10 Gornog, the Red Reaper 4 decks

Card text

Glóin the Mighty

Legendary Creature — Dwarf Warrior

At the beginning of your first main phase, add {R}

4 / 3

Easy Pickings

Sorcery — Adventure

Easy Pickings deals 1 damage to each creature your opponents control. (Then exile this card. You may cast the creature later from exile.)

The Hobbit (HOB) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Colin Boyer

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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.