Live Play Data

Part in Friendship

· Enchantment · The Hobbit (HOB)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

159

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

—

Drawn → Played

43%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=17

Not enough observed casts yet to show a reliable distribution.

The "good card" funnel

159 brought · 60 players

Brought to game

159

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -8.2pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=16) , vs 19% when it never left the library (n=95).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 33% (n=22).

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 +15.7pp; 95% confidence interval -8.2pp to +39.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

46 instances

30.4%

Battlefield

19.6%

Graveyard

6.5%

Exile

43.5%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Beorn the Fierce 12 decks
2 Tom, Bert, and William 7 decks
3 Thranduil, the Elvenking 6 decks
4 Radagast of Rhosgobel 5 decks
5 Chief of the Wilds 2 decks
6 Meren of Clan Nel Toth 2 decks
7 The Chief Warg 2 decks
8 The Earth King 2 decks
9 Tuya Bearclaw 2 decks
10 Aerid Konstrari 1 decks

Card text

Part in Friendship

Enchantment

Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a creature card. If its mana value is less than or equal to the number of lands you control, put it onto the battlefield. Otherwise, put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. This ability triggers only once each turn.

The Hobbit (HOB) · Rare · Illustrated by Jarel Threat

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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.