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Lord of the Nazgûl

· Legendary Creature — Wraith Noble · Tales of Middle-earth Commander (LTC)

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Times Brought

257

Decks Running

131

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

Card text

Lord of the Nazgûl

Legendary Creature — Wraith Noble

Flying Wraiths you control have protection from Ring-bearers. Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create a 3/3 black Wraith creature token with menace. Then if you control nine or more Wraiths, Wraiths you control have base power and toughness 9/9 until end of turn.

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Tales of Middle-earth Commander (LTC) · Rare · Illustrated by Anton Solovianchyk

Final zone distribution

54 instances

35.2%

Battlefield

33.3%

Graveyard

3.7%

Exile

27.8%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sauron, Lord of the Rings 57 decks
2 Sauron, the Dark Lord 57 decks
3 Saruman, the White Hand 10 decks
4 Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy 2 decks
5 Anhelo, the Painter 1 decks
6 Etrata, Deadly Fugitive 1 decks
7 Marchesa, the Black Rose 1 decks
8 Nicol Bolas, the Ravager // Nicol Bolas, the Arisen 1 decks
9 Niv-Mizzet, Supreme 1 decks
10 Saruman of Many Colors 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

257 brought · 123 players

Brought to game

257

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 59% 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.

≥ -11.7pp

Players who cast this card win 20% of the time (n=29) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=150).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=16).

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 -2.0pp; 95% confidence interval -11.7pp to +7.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=75

15%

21%

19%

33%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 4 · P75 6 · max 19

On curve 61% (14 / 75 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 29%

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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.