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Merry, Warden of Isengard

· Legendary Creature — Halfling Advisor · Tales of Middle-earth Commander (LTC)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

154

Decks Running

In Decks

606

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Merry, Warden of Isengard

Legendary Creature — Halfling Advisor

Partner with Pippin, Warden of Isengard (When this creature enters, target player may put Pippin into their hand from their library, then shuffle.) Whenever one or more artifacts you control enter, create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token with lifelink. This ability triggers only once each turn.

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Tales of Middle-earth Commander (LTC) · Rare · Illustrated by Viko Menezes

Final zone distribution

59 instances

3.4%

Library

40.7%

Battlefield

22.0%

Graveyard

3.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

154 brought · 72 players

Brought to game

154

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 53% 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.

≥ -2.9pp

Players who cast this card win 36% of the time (n=35) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=84).

Observed gap +12.9pp; 95% confidence interval -2.9pp to +28.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=36

11%

22%

39%

T6-9

17%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 19

On curve 11% (2 / 36 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 32%

36 of 100 times cast 36%

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

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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 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.