Live Play Data

Languish

· Sorcery · The Hobbit Eternal (HOC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

349

Decks Running

191

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

55%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=51

22%

57%

T6-9

16%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 13

On curve 6% (1 / 51 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 27%

The "good card" funnel

349 brought · 179 players

Brought to game

349

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -6.6pp

Players who cast this card win 23% of the time (n=46) , vs 18% when it never left the library (n=208).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 29% (n=35).

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 +5.4pp; 95% confidence interval -6.6pp to +17.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

112 instances

3.6%

Library

1.8%

Battlefield

58.0%

Graveyard

8.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sauron, Lord of the Rings 64 decks
2 Sauron, the Dark Lord 27 decks
3 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice 13 decks
4 Saruman, the White Hand 11 decks
5 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 6 decks
6 Lord of the Nazgûl 5 decks
7 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern 3 decks
8 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 3 decks
9 Xantcha, Sleeper Agent 3 decks
10 Be'lakor, the Dark Master 2 decks

Card text

Languish

Sorcery

All creatures get -4/-4 until end of turn.

The Hobbit Eternal (HOC) · Rare · 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 710,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.