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

3064

Decks Running

1276

Median Cast Turn

4.0

Drawn → Played

72%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=596

20%

11%

12%

31%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4.0 P25 2 · P75 7 · max 17

On curve 28% (121 / 596 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 40%

The "good card" funnel

3064 brought · 1043 players

Brought to game

3064

Ever drawn

811

Reached battlefield

586

Still on board at game end

273

Once cast, 47% 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.

≥ +4.8pp

Players who cast this card win 39% of the time (n=542) , vs 30% when it never left the library (n=1853).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 34% (n=199).

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 +9.1pp; 95% confidence interval +4.8pp to +13.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

912 instances

2.2%

Library

29.9%

Battlefield

39.3%

Graveyard

9.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 136 decks
2 Mr. House, President and CEO 90 decks
3 Marneus Calgar 70 decks
4 Queen Marchesa 47 decks
5 Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit 43 decks
6 Vihaan, Goldwaker 37 decks
7 Niv-Mizzet, Ghost Counsel 36 decks
8 Kambal, Profiteering Mayor 33 decks
9 Tymna the Weaver 32 decks
10 Ardbert, Warrior of Darkness 26 decks

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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.