Live Play Data

Gollum, Patient Plotter

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

205

Decks Running

119

Median Cast Turn

4.5

Drawn → Played

81%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=38

16%

18%

11%

16%

26%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4.5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 12

On curve 21% (6 / 38 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 34%

The "good card" funnel

205 brought · 112 players

Brought to game

205

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 18% 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.

≥ -17.4pp

Players who cast this card win 13% of the time (n=32) , vs 19% when it never left the library (n=128).

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 -5.5pp; 95% confidence interval -17.4pp to +6.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

56 instances

3.6%

Library

12.5%

Battlefield

62.5%

Graveyard

8.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Gollum, Patient Plotter

Legendary Creature — Halfling Horror

When Gollum leaves the battlefield, the Ring tempts you. {B}

, Sacrifice a creature: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Activate only as a sorcery.

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The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Lorenzo Mastroianni

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.