Live Play Data

Inside Information

· Sorcery · The Hobbit (HOB)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

343

Decks Running

136

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

58%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=44

73%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 8 · max 13

Cast same turn as drawn 26%

The "good card" funnel

343 brought · 132 players

Brought to game

343

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -10.8pp

Players who cast this card win 24% of the time (n=42) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=210).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 35% (n=24).

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 +3.0pp; 95% confidence interval -10.8pp to +16.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

88 instances

1.1%

Library

3.4%

Battlefield

52.3%

Graveyard

10.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Inside Information

Sorcery

Exile the top X cards of target opponent's library. You may play those cards this turn. If you cast a spell this way, pay life equal to its mana value rather than pay its mana cost.

The Hobbit (HOB) · Mythic · Illustrated by Sean Vo

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.