Live Play Data

Palantír of Orthanc

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

511

Decks Running

234

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

76%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=93

12%

22%

10%

32%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 13

On curve 37% (20 / 93 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 35%

The "good card" funnel

512 brought · 209 players

Brought to game

512

Ever drawn

123

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 73% 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.

≥ -1.7pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=84) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=305).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=28).

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 +8.8pp; 95% confidence interval -1.7pp to +19.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

158 instances

5.7%

Library

43.0%

Battlefield

31.6%

Graveyard

7.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Palantír of Orthanc

Legendary Artifact

At the beginning of your end step, put an influence counter on Palantír of Orthanc and scry 2. Then target opponent may have you draw a card. If that player doesn't, you mill X cards, where X is the number of influence counters on Palantír of Orthanc, and that player loses life equal to the total mana value of those cards.

The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR) · Mythic · Illustrated by Tatiana Veryayskaya

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.