Live Play Data

Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff

· Legendary Creature — Halfling Rogue · The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR)

11%

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

3810

Decks Running

1523

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

71%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=717

23%

13%

11%

13%

32%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 17

On curve 24% (164 / 717 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 36%

The "good card" funnel

3810 brought · 1240 players

Brought to game

3810

Ever drawn

993

Reached battlefield

706

Still on board at game end

326

Once cast, 46% 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.

≥ +5.2pp

Players who cast this card win 39% of the time (n=657) , vs 29% when it never left the library (n=2327).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 34% (n=257).

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 +9.2pp; 95% confidence interval +5.2pp to +13.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

1107 instances

2.1%

Library

29.4%

Battlefield

39.0%

Graveyard

9.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff

Legendary Creature — Halfling Rogue

Whenever a player casts their second spell each turn, you lose 1 life and create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with " {T}

, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

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The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR) · Rare · Illustrated by Ilker Yildiz

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 780,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.