Live Play Data

Rapacious Guest

· Creature — Halfling Citizen · Tales of Middle-earth Commander (LTC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

576

Decks Running

199

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

70%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=97

10%

13%

46%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 19

On curve 13% (10 / 97 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 36%

The "good card" funnel

577 brought · 231 players

Brought to game

577

Ever drawn

139

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 45% 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.

≥ -5.7pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=87) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=363).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=36).

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 +4.2pp; 95% confidence interval -5.7pp to +14.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

147 instances

3.4%

Library

29.9%

Battlefield

33.3%

Graveyard

8.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit 99 decks
2 Sam, Loyal Attendant 43 decks
3 Ygra, Eater of All 38 decks
4 Camellia, the Seedmiser 12 decks
5 Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar 11 decks
6 Bilbo, Birthday Celebrant 8 decks
7 Merry, Warden of Isengard 8 decks
8 Gyome, Master Chef 5 decks
9 Pippin, Warden of Isengard 4 decks
10 Greta, Sweettooth Scourge 3 decks

Card text

Rapacious Guest

Creature — Halfling Citizen

Menace Whenever one or more creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, create a Food token. Whenever you sacrifice a Food, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. When this creature leaves the battlefield, target opponent loses life equal to its power.

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Tales of Middle-earth Commander (LTC) · Rare · Illustrated by Bartłomiej Gaweł

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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.