Live Play Data

Meriadoc Brandybuck

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

288

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

4.5

Drawn → Played

71%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=48

23%

31%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 4.5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 17

On curve 25% (11 / 48 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 39%

The "good card" funnel

288 brought · 112 players

Brought to game

288

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 60% 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.

≥ -13.4pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=41) , vs 34% when it never left the library (n=193).

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 +1.8pp; 95% confidence interval -13.4pp to +17.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

72 instances

40.3%

Battlefield

29.2%

Graveyard

5.6%

Exile

25.0%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Meriadoc Brandybuck

Legendary Creature — Halfling Citizen

Whenever one or more Halflings you control attack a player, create a Food token. (It's an artifact with " {2}

, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.")

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

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.