Live Play Data

Peregrin Took

· Legendary Creature — Halfling Citizen · The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

696

Decks Running

255

Median Cast Turn

5.5

Drawn → Played

79%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

36% of games where Peregrin Took resolved ended in a win for the caster, a +9.6 percentage-point lift over decks where he never left the library, across 108 tracked cast observations.

Peregrin Took sits in 3% of Commander decks tracked on Playgroup Live, appearing in 255 of the 8711 distinct decks that have joined a tracked game. That is a niche number by format-staple standards, but the players who do include him are building deliberately around his token-amplification ability.

When Peregrin Took reaches the battlefield, his controller wins 36% of the time. Decks where he sat in the library the entire game won 26% of the time. That +9.6 pp gap is an early directional signal with 108 observations on the cast side and 483 on the library side. Both buckets are well-sampled enough to treat the direction as consistent, though not conclusive. Median first cast lands on turn 5.5, which is late enough that the card is doing work in a developed board state rather than setting up an early engine.

His home is Green-based token and Food strategies: Ygra, Chatterfang, Frodo, and Squirrel Girl lead the commander distribution. In those shells Peregrin Took acts as a passive doubler, converting every token trigger into an extra Food and converting three accumulated Foods into a card. The data is spread across 264 distinct players, with the single heaviest contributor accounting for 5% of all tracked instances, a healthy sign for the dataset's breadth.

At a glance

3% of tracked Commander decks include Peregrin Took
79% of drawn copies were cast before the game ended
T5.5 median first-cast turn
36% win rate when Peregrin Took resolved, across 108 observations
+9.6 pp win-rate lift over games where he never left the library
63% battlefield stickiness once cast

First-cast turn

n=118

14%

15%

16%

42%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.5 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 17

On curve 19% (16 / 118 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 39%

The "good card" funnel

697 brought · 264 players

Brought to game

697

Ever drawn

149

Reached battlefield

118

Still on board at game end

79%

Of 697 Peregrin Took copies brought to games, 149 were drawn, 118 of those were cast, and the majority stayed on the battlefield through end of game.

≥ +0.6pp

Players who cast this card win 36% of the time (n=108) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=483).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 29% (n=28) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +9.6pp; 95% confidence interval +0.6pp to +18.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

159 instances

1.3%

Library

46.5%

Battlefield

27.7%

Graveyard

5.7%

Exile

The majority of Peregrin Took copies finish in the library, which is the structural baseline for any singleton in a 100-card deck. The 118 cast copies that reached the battlefield tell the more meaningful story.

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit 34 decks
2 Ygra, Eater of All 33 decks
3 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 27 decks
4 Baylen, the Haymaker 19 decks
5 The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl 14 decks
6 Rocco, Street Chef 13 decks
7 Sam, Loyal Attendant 13 decks
8 Shelob, Child of Ungoliant 13 decks
9 Camellia, the Seedmiser 12 decks
10 The Cabbage Merchant 10 decks

The top-commander list spreads across Food, token-doubler, and Hobbit-tribal shells, confirming that Peregrin Took is a cross-archetype pickup rather than a card locked to a single strategy.

Card text

Peregrin Took

Legendary Creature — Halfling Citizen

If one or more tokens would be created under your control, those tokens plus an additional Food token are created instead. (It's an artifact with " {2}

, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.") Sacrifice three Foods: Draw a card.

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The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Campbell White

Frequently Asked

How often is Peregrin Took drawn in a Commander game?

Across 676 tracked games where Peregrin Took was in the deck, he was drawn 21% of the time. That is typical for a singleton in a 100-card deck. Of the 149 copies that reached a player's hand, 79% were cast before the game concluded.

What turn does Peregrin Took usually get cast?

Median first-cast turn is 5.5. The interquartile range runs from turn 4 to turn 8, and the distribution has a long tail extending past turn 10. Peregrin Took is a 3-mana creature, so the late median mostly reflects that he is often drawn in the mid-game rather than the opening hand. Of drawn-and-cast instances, only 19% landed exactly on curve at turn 3.

Does casting Peregrin Took actually improve your win rate?

In 108 tracked participations where he resolved, the win rate was 36%. In 483 participations where he stayed in the library the entire game, the win rate was 26%. The +9.6 pp gap is a consistent directional signal, but both the dataset and format variance mean this should be read as early evidence rather than a definitive claim.

Is Peregrin Took banned anywhere?

Peregrin Took is legal in Commander, Duel Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Historic, Timeless, and Oathbreaker. He is not legal in Standard, Pioneer, Pauper, or Pauper Commander. There are no current bans in the formats where he is legal.

Which commanders most often run Peregrin Took?

Ygra, Eater of All leads the tracked dataset, followed by Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit, and Chatterfang, Squirrel General. The pattern is clear: commanders that generate multiple tokens per turn scale best with Peregrin Took's passive doubler, turning each trigger into an extra Food and accelerating toward the three-Food card draw outlet.

How quickly do players cast Peregrin Took after drawing him?

Of 108 drawn-and-cast instances, 39% were cast on the same turn the card was drawn. The median delay is 1 turn. Players are not slow-rolling him: when the board state is ready, he goes down promptly. The cases where he sits longer likely reflect waiting for token synergies to be in place.