Live Play Data

Orcish Medicine

· Instant · The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

544

Decks Running

232

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

52%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=59

64%

T6-9

24%

T10+

Median 8 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 14

On curve 0% (0 / 59 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 29%

The "good card" funnel

544 brought · 204 players

Brought to game

544

Ever drawn

114

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -1.7pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=52) , vs 17% when it never left the library (n=363).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=47).

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 -1.7pp to +22.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

134 instances

3.0%

Library

3.7%

Battlefield

57.5%

Graveyard

8.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sauron, the Dark Lord 128 decks
2 The Great Goblin 33 decks
3 Saruman, the White Hand 23 decks
4 Sauron, Lord of the Rings 5 decks
5 Zurgo Helmsmasher 5 decks
6 Great Goblin, Foul-Hearted 3 decks
7 Lord of the Nazgûl 3 decks
8 Marchesa, the Black Rose 2 decks
9 Sauron, the Necromancer 2 decks
10 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 2 decks

Card text

Orcish Medicine

Instant

Target creature gains your choice of lifelink or indestructible until end of turn. Amass Orcs 1. (Put a +1/+1 counter on an Army you control. It's also an Orc. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Orc Army creature token first.)

The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR) · Common · Illustrated by Irvin Rodriguez

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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.