Live Play Data

Mentor of the Meek

· Creature — Human Soldier · The Hobbit Eternal (HOC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1359

Decks Running

702

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

62%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=179

10%

17%

12%

11%

39%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 8 · max 20

On curve 28% (30 / 179 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 37%

The "good card" funnel

1359 brought · 631 players

Brought to game

1359

Ever drawn

289

Reached battlefield

179

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 50% 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 25% of the time (n=155) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=911).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 27% (n=96).

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 +1.6pp; 95% confidence interval -5.2pp to +8.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

313 instances

4.2%

Library

28.8%

Battlefield

39.0%

Graveyard

5.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Arabella, Abandoned Doll 53 decks
2 Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit 53 decks
3 Emmara, Soul of the Accord 31 decks
4 Myrel, Shield of Argive 24 decks
5 Darien, King of Kjeldor 16 decks
6 Sam, Loyal Attendant 16 decks
7 Kudo, King Among Bears 14 decks
8 Rin and Seri, Inseparable 13 decks
9 Delney, Streetwise Lookout 11 decks
10 Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines 10 decks

Card text

Mentor of the Meek

Creature — Human Soldier

Whenever another creature you control with power 2 or less enters, you may pay {1}

. If you do, draw a card.

2 / 2

The Hobbit Eternal (HOC) · Rare · Illustrated by Wei Guan

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.