Live Play Data

Raise the Palisade

· Sorcery · Tales of Middle-earth Commander (LTC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

3574

Decks Running

1520

Median Cast Turn

8.0

Drawn → Played

63%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=528

69%

T6-9

20%

T10+

Median 8.0 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 19

On curve 11% (42 / 528 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 26%

The "good card" funnel

3576 brought · 1242 players

Brought to game

3576

Ever drawn

836

Reached battlefield

528

Still on board at game end

≥ +7.4pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=484) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=2286).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 31% (n=267).

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 +11.7pp; 95% confidence interval +7.4pp to +15.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

925 instances

4.0%

Library

5.5%

Battlefield

55.1%

Graveyard

6.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Captain America, Team Leader 316 decks
2 Lord of the Nazgûl 53 decks
3 The Ur-Sphinx 50 decks
4 Hakbal of the Surging Soul 48 decks
5 Gandalf, Party Guest 45 decks
6 Thranduil, the Elvenking 41 decks
7 Alela, Cunning Conqueror 40 decks
8 Éowyn, Shieldmaiden 38 decks
9 Choco, Seeker of Paradise 34 decks
10 Uugguu, the Omniplasm 33 decks

Card text

Raise the Palisade

Sorcery

Choose a creature type. Return all creatures that aren't of the chosen type to their owners' hands.

Tales of Middle-earth Commander (LTC) · Rare · Illustrated by Jason Kang

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 770,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.