Live Play Data

Merry, Warden of Isengard

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

285

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

72%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=84

13%

19%

26%

29%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 19

On curve 18% (11 / 84 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 32%

The "good card" funnel

285 brought · 131 players

Brought to game

285

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 51% 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.

≥ +0.5pp

Players who cast this card win 36% of the time (n=62) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=157).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 30% (n=26).

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 +12.6pp; 95% confidence interval +0.5pp to +24.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

99 instances

4.0%

Library

35.4%

Battlefield

28.3%

Graveyard

4.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

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

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 710,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.