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

650

Decks Running

314

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

69%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=116

22%

19%

28%

T6-9

17%

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 15

On curve 36% (26 / 116 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 28%

The "good card" funnel

651 brought · 287 players

Brought to game

651

Ever drawn

161

Reached battlefield

111

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 48% 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.

≥ -6.3pp

Players who cast this card win 19% of the time (n=97) , vs 18% when it never left the library (n=379).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 29% (n=45).

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 +1.5pp; 95% confidence interval -6.3pp to +9.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

191 instances

2.1%

Library

27.7%

Battlefield

45.5%

Graveyard

7.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sauron, Lord of the Rings 95 decks
2 Sauron, the Dark Lord 58 decks
3 Lord of the Nazgûl 33 decks
4 Saruman, the White Hand 26 decks
5 Gonti, Canny Acquisitor 18 decks
6 Saruman of Many Colors 12 decks
7 Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima 11 decks
8 Nathan Drake, Treasure Hunter 10 decks
9 Don Andres, the Renegade 6 decks
10 Tasha, the Witch Queen 5 decks

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 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.