Live Play Data

Through the Forest Gate

· Sorcery · The Hobbit (HOB)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

691

Decks Running

277

Median Cast Turn

8.0

Drawn → Played

57%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=86

12%

58%

T6-9

26%

T10+

Median 8.0 P25 6 · P75 10 · max 14

On curve 60% (15 / 86 cast on T8) Cast same turn as drawn 28%

The "good card" funnel

691 brought · 242 players

Brought to game

691

Ever drawn

151

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -3.8pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=79) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=443).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=52).

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 +6.6pp; 95% confidence interval -3.8pp to +17.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

169 instances

4.7%

Library

10.1%

Battlefield

43.2%

Graveyard

5.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Through the Forest Gate

Sorcery

Look at the top twenty cards of your library, put any number of land cards from among them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. You gain 8 life.

The Hobbit (HOB) · Rare · Illustrated by Leon Tukker

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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.