Live Play Data

Lobelia, Defender of Bag End

· Legendary Creature — Halfling Citizen · Tales of Middle-earth Commander (LTC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

190

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

60%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=29

10%

45%

T6-9

24%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 16

On curve 14% (3 / 29 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 32%

The "good card" funnel

190 brought · 98 players

Brought to game

190

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 48% 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.

≥ -5.7pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=26) , vs 17% when it never left the library (n=118).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=17).

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 +10.7pp; 95% confidence interval -5.7pp to +27.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

48 instances

2.1%

Library

29.2%

Battlefield

41.7%

Graveyard

4.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Lobelia, Defender of Bag End

Legendary Creature — Halfling Citizen

When Lobelia enters, look at the top card of each opponent's library and exile those cards face down. {T}

, Sacrifice an artifact: Choose one — • Until end of turn, you may play a card exiled with Lobelia without paying its mana cost. • Each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

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Tales of Middle-earth Commander (LTC) · Rare · Illustrated by Caroline Gariba

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.