Live Play Data

Plunder the Trollshaws

· Instant · The Hobbit (HOB)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

193

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

73%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=40

18%

20%

28%

T6-9

20%

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 4 · P75 9 · max 14

On curve 8% (3 / 40 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 37%

The "good card" funnel

193 brought · 77 players

Brought to game

193

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -0.4pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=36) , vs 18% when it never left the library (n=121).

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 +15.8pp; 95% confidence interval -0.4pp to +32.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

59 instances

5.1%

Library

62.7%

Graveyard

15.3%

Exile

16.9%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Bard, King of Dale 7 decks
2 Saruman, the White Hand 5 decks
3 Thranduil, the Elvenking 5 decks
4 Bilbo, Thief in the Night 4 decks
5 Lord of the Nazgûl 4 decks
6 Bruce Banner // The Incredible Hulk 3 decks
7 Gandalf, Party Guest 2 decks
8 Muldrotha, the Gravetide 2 decks
9 Norman Osborn // Green Goblin 2 decks
10 Queza, Augur of Agonies 2 decks

Card text

Plunder the Trollshaws

Instant

Draw a card. If this spell was cast from a graveyard, draw two cards instead. Flashback {3}

(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

The Hobbit (HOB) · Common · Illustrated by Alexander Mokhov

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.