Live Play Data

Rammas Echor, Ancient Shield

· Legendary Artifact · Tales of Middle-earth Commander (LTC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

475

Decks Running

228

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

55%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=72

17%

19%

49%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 15

On curve 19% (12 / 72 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 34%

The "good card" funnel

475 brought · 216 players

Brought to game

475

Ever drawn

130

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 82% 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.

≥ +1.4pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=65) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=294).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 33% (n=53).

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 +13.3pp; 95% confidence interval +1.4pp to +25.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

135 instances

3.7%

Library

43.7%

Battlefield

17.0%

Graveyard

2.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Rammas Echor, Ancient Shield

Legendary Artifact

Whenever you cast your second spell each turn, draw a card, then create a 0/3 white Wall creature token with defender. At the beginning of combat on your turn, creatures you control with defender gain exalted until end of turn. (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each instance of exalted among permanents you control.)

Tales of Middle-earth Commander (LTC) · Rare · Illustrated by Matt Stewart

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 780,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.