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Through the Forest Gate

· Sorcery · The Hobbit (HOB)

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Times Brought

405

Decks Running

206

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

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

Final zone distribution

89 instances

4.5%

Library

6.7%

Battlefield

42.7%

Graveyard

4.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Thranduil, the Elvenking 13 decks
2 Tifa Lockhart 9 decks
3 Beorn the Fierce 8 decks
4 Homer, the Hermit 7 decks
5 Thranduil, Sindarin Liege // Silvan Rally 7 decks
6 Thranduil the Strategist 6 decks
7 Fynn, the Fangbearer 5 decks
8 Hearthhull, the Worldseed 5 decks
9 Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait 4 decks
10 Aragorn, the Uniter 4 decks

The "good card" funnel

405 brought · 185 players

Brought to game

405

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -6.7pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=37) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=236).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 30% (n=25).

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 +2.0pp; 95% confidence interval -6.7pp to +10.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=45

71%

T6-9

20%

T10+

Median 8 P25 7 · P75 9 · max 12

On curve 62% (9 / 45 cast on T8) Cast same turn as drawn 30%

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.