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Rapacious Guest

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

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

237

Decks Running

In Decks

793

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

Final zone distribution

55 instances

5.5%

Library

30.9%

Battlefield

41.8%

Graveyard

5.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit 40 decks
2 Ygra, Eater of All 19 decks
3 Sam, Loyal Attendant 14 decks
4 Camellia, the Seedmiser 8 decks
5 Merry, Warden of Isengard 5 decks
6 Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar 4 decks
7 Gyome, Master Chef 4 decks
8 Bilbo, Birthday Celebrant 3 decks
9 Korvold, Fae-Cursed King 2 decks
10 Pippin, Warden of Isengard 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

238 brought · 101 players

Brought to game

238

Ever drawn

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.

≥ -14.6pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=37) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=157).

Observed gap -0.5pp; 95% confidence interval -14.6pp to +13.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=38

16%

18%

42%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 18% (6 / 38 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 37%

38 of 100 times cast 38%

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.