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Nazgûl Battle-Mace

· Artifact — Equipment · Tales of Middle-earth Commander (LTC)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

156

Decks Running

In Decks

548

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Nazgûl Battle-Mace

Artifact — Equipment

Equipped creature has menace, deathtouch, annihilator 1, and "Whenever an opponent sacrifices a nontoken permanent, put that card onto the battlefield under your control unless that player pays 3 life." (Whenever a creature with annihilator 1 attacks, defending player sacrifices a permanent of their choice.) Equip {3}

Tales of Middle-earth Commander (LTC) · Rare · Illustrated by Campbell White

Final zone distribution

42 instances

2.4%

Library

35.7%

Battlefield

26.2%

Graveyard

4.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sauron, the Dark Lord 13 decks
2 Sauron, Lord of the Rings 6 decks
3 Lord of the Nazgûl 5 decks
4 Cloud, Midgar Mercenary 4 decks
5 Ekthi, Contaminator Priest 3 decks
6 The Serpent Society 3 decks
7 Tony Stark // The Invincible Iron Man 3 decks
8 Zhulodok, Void Gorger 3 decks
9 Captain America, First Avenger 2 decks
10 Maarika, Brutal Gladiator 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

156 brought · 72 players

Brought to game

156

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

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.

≥ -9.4pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=18) , vs 18% when it never left the library (n=104).

Observed gap +11.6pp; 95% confidence interval -9.4pp to +32.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=22

18%

27%

T6-9

23%

T10+

Median 5.5 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 50% (6 / 22 cast on T5)

22 of 100 times cast 22%

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