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Gríma, Saruman's Footman

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

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Times Brought

187

Decks Running

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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

Final zone distribution

39 instances

35.9%

Battlefield

23.1%

Graveyard

7.7%

Exile

30.8%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

187 brought · 93 players

Brought to game

187

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 57% 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.

First-cast turn

n=21

14%

19%

43%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 9

On curve 38% (3 / 21 cast on T4)

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.