Live Play Data

Pippin, Guard of the Citadel

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

379

Decks Running

181

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

72%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=64

14%

16%

36%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 8 · max 19

On curve 19% (9 / 64 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 25%

The "good card" funnel

379 brought · 177 players

Brought to game

379

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 49% 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.

≥ -12.8pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=60) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=259).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 14% (n=19).

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 -0.8pp; 95% confidence interval -12.8pp to +11.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

92 instances

1.1%

Library

33.7%

Battlefield

30.4%

Graveyard

6.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Aragorn, the Uniter 46 decks
2 Jodah, the Unifier 17 decks
3 Captain America, Living Legend 11 decks
4 Grand Arbiter Augustin IV 8 decks
5 Aragorn, King of Gondor 6 decks
6 Éowyn, Shieldmaiden 5 decks
7 Captain America, First Avenger 4 decks
8 Ms. Bumbleflower 4 decks
9 Niv-Mizzet, Guildpact 4 decks
10 Rafiq of the Many 4 decks

Card text

Pippin, Guard of the Citadel

Legendary Creature — Halfling Soldier

Vigilance, ward {1}

: Another target creature you control gains protection from the card type of your choice until end of turn. (It can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, enchanted, or equipped by anything of that type.)

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

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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.