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Merry, Esquire of Rohan

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

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

100

Decks Running

In Decks

323

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Final zone distribution

27 instances

7.4%

Library

37.0%

Battlefield

37.0%

Graveyard

11.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Aragorn, the Uniter 6 decks
2 Sonic the Hedgehog 6 decks
3 Lightning, Army of One 5 decks
4 General Ferrous Rokiric 4 decks
5 Amy Rose 3 decks
6 Cadric, Soul Kindler 3 decks
7 Joshua, Phoenix's Dominant // Phoenix, Warden of Fire 3 decks
8 Aragorn, King of Gondor 2 decks
9 Jodah, the Unifier 2 decks
10 Adriana, Captain of the Guard 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

100 brought · 42 players

Brought to game

100

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -1.3pp

Players who cast this card win 44% of the time (n=17) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=64).

Observed gap +23.8pp; 95% confidence interval -1.3pp to +48.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

18 of 100 times cast 18%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 620,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.