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Mirkwood Bats

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

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Times Brought

3299

Decks Running

1512

In Decks

—

Decklist Inclusion

—

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

Card text

Mirkwood Bats

Creature — Bat

Flying Whenever you create or sacrifice a token, each opponent loses 1 life.

2 / 3

The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR) · Common · Illustrated by John Tedrick

Final zone distribution

687 instances

1.0%

Library

37.1%

Battlefield

26.1%

Graveyard

4.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Mr. House, President and CEO 100 decks
2 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 95 decks
3 Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit 86 decks
4 Smaug the Impenetrable 80 decks
5 Ygra, Eater of All 46 decks
6 Sam, Loyal Attendant 42 decks
7 Caesar, Legion's Emperor 41 decks
8 Marneus Calgar 41 decks
9 Marrow-Gnawer 40 decks
10 Witherbloom, the Balancer 40 decks

The "good card" funnel

3299 brought · 1272 players

Brought to game

3299

Ever drawn

648

Reached battlefield

408

Still on board at game end

255

Once cast, 63% 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 26% of the time (n=320) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=1883).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 20% (n=173).

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 +3.5pp; 95% confidence interval +0.5pp to +6.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=408

12%

16%

55%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 18

On curve 16% (48 / 408 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 28%

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 780,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.