Live Play Data

Olórin's Searing Light

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

119

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

8.0

Drawn → Played

83%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=20

10%

75%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 8.0 P25 7 · P75 8 · max 11

On curve 10% (2 / 20 cast on T4)

The "good card" funnel

119 brought · 70 players

Brought to game

119

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -12.9pp

Players who cast this card win 38% of the time (n=20) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=79).

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 +10.3pp; 95% confidence interval -12.9pp to +33.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

27 instances

7.4%

Battlefield

63.0%

Graveyard

14.8%

Exile

14.8%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Gandalf, Party Guest 11 decks
2 Lorehold, the Historian 11 decks
3 Aragorn, the Uniter 8 decks
4 Queen Marchesa 8 decks
5 General Ferrous Rokiric 5 decks
6 Quintorius, Loremaster 3 decks
7 Arabella, Abandoned Doll 2 decks
8 Aziza, Mage Tower Captain 2 decks
9 Firesong and Sunspeaker 2 decks
10 Nelly Borca, Impulsive Accuser 2 decks

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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.