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

1066

Decks Running

444

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

72%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=192

18%

11%

34%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 13

On curve 31% (34 / 192 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 40%

The "good card" funnel

1067 brought · 393 players

Brought to game

1067

Ever drawn

265

Reached battlefield

192

Still on board at game end

138

Once cast, 72% 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.

≥ +1.1pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=168) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=646).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 31% (n=66).

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 +8.6pp; 95% confidence interval +1.1pp to +16.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

329 instances

3.0%

Library

41.9%

Battlefield

29.5%

Graveyard

8.2%

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 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.