Live Play Data

Relic of Sauron

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1460

Decks Running

620

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

71%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=277

17%

24%

11%

34%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 16

On curve 48% (66 / 277 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 36%

The "good card" funnel

1461 brought · 524 players

Brought to game

1461

Ever drawn

392

Reached battlefield

277

Still on board at game end

223

Once cast, 81% 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.

≥ -1.5pp

Players who cast this card win 24% of the time (n=251) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=870).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 32% (n=94).

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 +4.0pp; 95% confidence interval -1.5pp to +9.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

444 instances

2.0%

Library

50.2%

Battlefield

23.0%

Graveyard

5.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sauron, the Dark Lord 232 decks
2 Sauron, Lord of the Rings 108 decks
3 Saruman, the White Hand 40 decks
4 Be'lakor, the Dark Master 30 decks
5 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 19 decks
6 Nekusar, the Mindrazer 19 decks
7 Dr. Eggman 18 decks
8 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 17 decks
9 Nicol Bolas, the Ravager // Nicol Bolas, the Arisen 12 decks
10 Norman Osborn // Green Goblin 9 decks

Card text

Relic of Sauron

Artifact

: Add two mana in any combination of {U}

, and/or

: Draw two cards, then discard a card.

Tales of Middle-earth Commander (LTC) · Rare · Illustrated by Anton Solovianchyk

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.