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Press the Enemy

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

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

Decks Running

In Decks

380

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Press the Enemy

Instant

Return target spell or nonland permanent an opponent controls to its owner's hand. You may cast an instant or sorcery spell with equal or lesser mana value from your hand without paying its mana cost.

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

Final zone distribution

40 instances

Not enough tracked games yet to show a reliable final-zone breakdown.

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 17 decks
2 Lord of the Nazgûl 5 decks
3 The Emperor of Palamecia // The Lord Master of Hell 5 decks
4 Saruman of Many Colors 4 decks
5 Ashling, Rekindled // Ashling, Rimebound 2 decks
6 Ms. Bumbleflower 2 decks
7 Ovika, Enigma Goliath 2 decks
8 Sauron, the Dark Lord 2 decks
9 Will Kenrith 2 decks
10 Aragorn, the Uniter 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

93 brought · 57 players

Brought to game

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -32.8pp

Players who cast this card win 22% of the time (n=23) , vs 34% when it never left the library (n=45).

Observed gap -12.1pp; 95% confidence interval -32.8pp to +8.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=25

20%

40%

T6-9

24%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 15

On curve 16% (2 / 25 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 13%

25 of 100 times cast 25%

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.