Live Play Data

Gríma, Saruman's Footman

· Legendary Creature — Human Advisor · Tales of Middle-earth Commander (LTC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

274

Decks Running

143

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

69%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=52

15%

23%

17%

33%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 11

On curve 40% (12 / 52 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 29%

The "good card" funnel

275 brought · 130 players

Brought to game

275

Ever drawn

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.

≥ -9.0pp

Players who cast this card win 24% of the time (n=45) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=155).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 29% (n=20).

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 +3.6pp; 95% confidence interval -9.0pp to +16.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

92 instances

1.1%

Library

32.6%

Battlefield

42.4%

Graveyard

8.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Gríma, Saruman's Footman

Legendary Creature — Human Advisor

Gríma can't be blocked. Whenever Gríma deals combat damage to a player, that player exiles cards from the top of their library until they exile an instant or sorcery card. You may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Then that player puts the exiled cards that weren't cast this way on the bottom of their library in a random order.

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Tales of Middle-earth Commander (LTC) · Rare · Illustrated by Matt Stewart

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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.