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Minas Morgul, Dark Fortress
Legendary Land
·
The Hobbit Eternal (HOC)
1%
Decklist Inclusion
Times Brought
144
Decks Running
86
In Decks
698
Decklist Inclusion
1%
Format
Final zone distribution
46 instances2.2%
Library
80.4%
Battlefield
8.7%
Graveyard
8.7%
Hand
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
Sauron, the Dark Lord
11 decks
-
2
Lord of the Nazgûl
7 decks
-
3
Magar of the Magic Strings
5 decks
-
4
Obeka, Splitter of Seconds
4 decks
-
5
Saruman, the White Hand
4 decks
-
6
Marvo, Deep Operative
3 decks
-
7
Aphelia, Viper Whisperer
2 decks
-
8
Ramses, Assassin Lord
2 decks
-
9
Sauron, Lord of the Rings
2 decks
-
10
Shagrat, Loot Bearer
2 decks
The "good card" funnel
144 brought · 81 playersBrought to game
144
Ever drawn
46
Reached battlefield
38
Still on board at game end
37
Once cast, 97% 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.
≥ -13.8pp
Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=38) , vs 31% when it never left the library (n=87).
Observed gap +2.0pp; 95% confidence interval -13.8pp to +17.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
First-cast turn
n=38
29%
T1
8%
T2
5%
T3
16%
T4
16%
T5
18%
T6-9
8%
T10+
Median
4.0
P25
1
· P75
6
· max
11
Cast same turn as drawn
58%
38 of 100 times cast
38%
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.