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Phial of Galadriel

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

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

101

Decks Running

In Decks

539

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Phial of Galadriel

Legendary Artifact

If you would draw a card while you have no cards in hand, draw two cards instead. If you would gain life while you have 5 or less life, you gain twice that much life instead. {T}

: Add one mana of any color.

The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR) · Rare · Illustrated by Andrea Piparo

Final zone distribution

30 instances

3.3%

Library

63.3%

Battlefield

20.0%

Graveyard

3.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sauron, the Dark Lord 10 decks
2 Aragorn, the Uniter 4 decks
3 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 4 decks
4 Flubs, the Fool 4 decks
5 Jodah, the Unifier 2 decks
6 Norman Osborn // Green Goblin 2 decks
7 Yoshimaru, Ever Faithful 2 decks
8 Aerith Gainsborough 1 decks
9 Amalia Benavides Aguirre 1 decks
10 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

104 brought · 56 players

Brought to game

104

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 79% 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.

≥ -0.1pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=24) , vs 16% when it never left the library (n=66).

Observed gap +18.1pp; 95% confidence interval -0.1pp to +36.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=24

17%

50%

T6-9

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 12

On curve 25% (4 / 24 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 38%

24 of 100 times cast 24%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.