Live Play Data

Isengard Unleashed

· Sorcery · Tales of Middle-earth Commander (LTC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

373

Decks Running

165

Median Cast Turn

8.0

Drawn → Played

42%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=28

64%

T6-9

25%

T10+

Median 8.0 P25 7 · P75 10 · max 18

On curve 11% (2 / 28 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 31%

The "good card" funnel

373 brought · 145 players

Brought to game

373

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ +5.7pp

Players who cast this card win 50% of the time (n=25) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=255).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 13% (n=33).

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 +23.2pp; 95% confidence interval +5.7pp to +40.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

80 instances

5.0%

Library

15.0%

Battlefield

31.3%

Graveyard

6.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Smaug the Magnificent 12 decks
2 Kratos, God of War 11 decks
3 Dáin of the Ancient Halls 9 decks
4 Heartless Hidetsugu 9 decks
5 Saruman, the White Hand 9 decks
6 The Emperor of Palamecia // The Lord Master of Hell 7 decks
7 Sauron, the Dark Lord 6 decks
8 Vivi Ornitier 4 decks
9 Amarant Coral 3 decks
10 Gornog, the Red Reaper 3 decks

Card text

Isengard Unleashed

Sorcery

Damage can't be prevented this turn. If a source you control would deal damage this turn to an opponent or a permanent an opponent controls, it deals triple that damage instead. Flashback {4}

(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Tales of Middle-earth Commander (LTC) · Rare · Illustrated by Jason Rainville

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.