Live Play Data

Gollum, Obsessed Stalker

· Legendary Creature — Halfling Horror · Tales of Middle-earth Commander (LTC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

292

Decks Running

103

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

63%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=48

23%

17%

35%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 2 · P75 7 · max 20

On curve 31% (11 / 48 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 43%

The "good card" funnel

292 brought · 128 players

Brought to game

292

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 49% 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.

≥ -13.4pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=34) , vs 31% when it never left the library (n=191).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 40% (n=23).

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 +2.7pp; 95% confidence interval -13.4pp to +18.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

66 instances

3.0%

Library

28.8%

Battlefield

33.3%

Graveyard

6.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit 63 decks
2 Sam, Loyal Attendant 30 decks
3 Bilbo, Birthday Celebrant 12 decks
4 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 5 decks
5 Merry, Warden of Isengard 4 decks
6 Betor, Ancestor's Voice 2 decks
7 Karlov of the Ghost Council 2 decks
8 Ratadrabik of Urborg 2 decks
9 Sorin of House Markov // Sorin, Ravenous Neonate 2 decks
10 The Master, Mesmerist 2 decks

Card text

Gollum, Obsessed Stalker

Legendary Creature — Halfling Horror

Skulk (This creature can't be blocked by creatures with greater power.) At the beginning of your end step, each opponent dealt combat damage this game by a creature named Gollum, Obsessed Stalker loses life equal to the amount of life you gained this turn.

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Tales of Middle-earth Commander (LTC) · Rare · Illustrated by John Di Giovanni

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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.