Live Play Data

Olórin's Searing Light

· Instant · Tales of Middle-earth Commander (LTC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

275

Decks Running

157

Median Cast Turn

8.0

Drawn → Played

76%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=50

10%

62%

T6-9

20%

T10+

Median 8.0 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 15

On curve 10% (5 / 50 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 39%

The "good card" funnel

275 brought · 154 players

Brought to game

275

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -2.3pp

Players who cast this card win 41% of the time (n=48) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=180).

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 +12.7pp; 95% confidence interval -2.3pp to +27.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

78 instances

1.3%

Library

6.4%

Battlefield

60.3%

Graveyard

11.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Olórin's Searing Light

Instant

Each opponent exiles a creature with the greatest power among creatures that player controls. Spell mastery — If there are two or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard, Olórin's Searing Light deals damage to each opponent equal to the power of the creature they exiled.

Tales of Middle-earth Commander (LTC) · Rare · Illustrated by Matt Stewart

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.