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Pippin, Guard of the Citadel

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

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

139

Decks Running

In Decks

635

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

Final zone distribution

40 instances

2.5%

Library

25.0%

Battlefield

42.5%

Graveyard

5.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Aragorn, the Uniter 19 decks
2 Jodah, the Unifier 6 decks
3 Captain America, Living Legend 5 decks
4 Grand Arbiter Augustin IV 3 decks
5 Ms. Bumbleflower 3 decks
6 Aragorn, King of Gondor 2 decks
7 Bruna, Light of Alabaster 2 decks
8 Captain America, First Avenger 2 decks
9 Éowyn, Shieldmaiden 2 decks
10 Gwafa Hazid, Profiteer 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

139 brought · 73 players

Brought to game

139

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 36% 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.

≥ -21.7pp

Players who cast this card win 22% of the time (n=28) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=92).

Observed gap -4.6pp; 95% confidence interval -21.7pp to +12.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=28

11%

14%

36%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 19

On curve 21% (3 / 28 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 30%

28 of 100 times cast 28%

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.