Live Play Data

Meneldor, Swift Savior

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

140

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

66%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=27

11%

19%

15%

48%

T6-9

T10+

Median 7 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 16

On curve 30% (5 / 27 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 24%

The "good card" funnel

140 brought · 68 players

Brought to game

140

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.

≥ -24.2pp

Players who cast this card win 18% of the time (n=23) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=82).

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 -7.1pp; 95% confidence interval -24.2pp to +10.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

45 instances

6.7%

Library

28.9%

Battlefield

31.1%

Graveyard

6.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Arthur, Marigold Knight 7 decks
2 Cynette, Jelly Drover 6 decks
3 Elrond, Moon-Reader 5 decks
4 Kastral, the Windcrested 5 decks
5 Sauron, Lord of the Rings 4 decks
6 Choco, Seeker of Paradise 3 decks
7 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 3 decks
8 Wan Shi Tong, All-Knowing 3 decks
9 Ambassador Blorpityblorpboop 2 decks
10 Bill Ferny, Bree Swindler 2 decks

Card text

Meneldor, Swift Savior

Legendary Creature — Bird Soldier

Flying Whenever Meneldor deals combat damage to a player, exile up to one target creature you own, then return it to the battlefield under your control.

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The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Axel Sauerwald

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.