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Mirkwood Bats

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

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Times Brought

1612

Decks Running

775

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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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

327 instances

1.5%

Library

42.2%

Battlefield

22.3%

Graveyard

3.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Mr. House, President and CEO 52 decks
2 Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit 49 decks
3 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 44 decks
4 Smaug the Impenetrable 38 decks
5 Marrow-Gnawer 22 decks
6 Witherbloom, the Balancer 21 decks
7 Blech, Loafing Pest 20 decks
8 Ygra, Eater of All 18 decks
9 Caesar, Legion's Emperor 16 decks
10 Korvold, Fae-Cursed King 16 decks

The "good card" funnel

1612 brought · 655 players

Brought to game

1612

Ever drawn

310

Reached battlefield

202

Still on board at game end

138

Once cast, 68% 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.

≥ -2.0pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=175) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=978).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 19% (n=86).

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 +2.0pp; 95% confidence interval -2.0pp to +6.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=202

13%

18%

51%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 18

On curve 22% (26 / 202 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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.