Live Play Data

Orcish Bowmasters

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

2349

Decks Running

1111

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

72%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=382

15%

10%

13%

14%

36%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 18

On curve 21% (57 / 382 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 39%

The "good card" funnel

2350 brought · 827 players

Brought to game

2350

Ever drawn

528

Reached battlefield

382

Still on board at game end

178

Once cast, 47% 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.

≥ +5.9pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=347) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=1468).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 34% (n=123).

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 +10.8pp; 95% confidence interval +5.9pp to +15.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

617 instances

3.1%

Library

28.8%

Battlefield

34.5%

Graveyard

13.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sauron, the Dark Lord 145 decks
2 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 56 decks
3 Nekusar, the Mindrazer 43 decks
4 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 42 decks
5 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 35 decks
6 Smaug the Impenetrable 27 decks
7 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 24 decks
8 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 21 decks
9 Marneus Calgar 20 decks
10 Fire Lord Azula 18 decks

Card text

Orcish Bowmasters

Creature — Orc Archer

Flash When this creature enters and whenever an opponent draws a card except the first one they draw in each of their draw steps, this creature deals 1 damage to any target. Then amass Orcs 1.

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The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR) · Rare · Illustrated by Maxim Kostin

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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.