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Part of The Hobbit
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Artifact
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The Hobbit (HOB)
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: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.
, , Discard a legendary card with the same name as a legendary permanent you control: Draw two cards.
Live Play Data
Key to the Side-Door
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Artifact
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The Hobbit (HOB)
0%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
267
Decks Running
115
Median Cast Turn
3
Drawn → Played
84%
Format
First-cast turn
n=41
29%
T1
15%
T2
15%
T3
2%
T4
7%
T5
22%
T6-9
10%
T10+
Median
3
P25
1
· P75
6
· max
15
On curve
29%
(12 / 41 cast on T1)
Cast same turn as drawn
65%
The "good card" funnel
267 brought · 104 playersBrought to game
267
Ever drawn
49
Reached battlefield
41
Still on board at game end
36
Once cast, 88% 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.
≥ -11.9pp
Players who cast this card win 18% of the time (n=35) , vs 18% when it never left the library (n=178).
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 +0.3pp; 95% confidence interval -11.9pp to +12.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
Final zone distribution
56 instances3.6%
Library
64.3%
Battlefield
17.9%
Graveyard
5.4%
Exile
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
Thorin, King of Durin's Folk
15 decks
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2
Dáin of the Ancient Halls
6 decks
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3
Radagast of Rhosgobel
5 decks
- 4 Omnath, Locus of the Void 4 decks
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5
Kotis, the Fangkeeper
3 decks
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6
Lightning, Army of One
3 decks
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7
Magar of the Magic Strings
3 decks
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8
Sauron, Lord of the Rings
3 decks
-
9
Smaug the Impenetrable
3 decks
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10
Smaug, Wicked Worm
3 decks
Card text
Key to the Side-Door
Artifact
, : Target creature can't be blocked this turn.
, , Discard a legendary card with the same name as a legendary permanent you control: Draw two cards.
The Hobbit (HOB)
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Uncommon
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Illustrated by Nathaniel Himawan
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.