Live Play Data

Relic of Sauron

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1033

Decks Running

463

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

71%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=190

17%

23%

10%

32%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 16

On curve 49% (44 / 190 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 35%

The "good card" funnel

1034 brought · 397 players

Brought to game

1034

Ever drawn

266

Reached battlefield

190

Still on board at game end

149

Once cast, 78% 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.

≥ -1.0pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=171) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=619).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 35% (n=61).

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 +5.7pp; 95% confidence interval -1.0pp to +12.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

301 instances

3.0%

Library

49.5%

Battlefield

22.9%

Graveyard

6.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sauron, the Dark Lord 183 decks
2 Sauron, Lord of the Rings 81 decks
3 Saruman, the White Hand 33 decks
4 Be'lakor, the Dark Master 22 decks
5 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 14 decks
6 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 13 decks
7 Dr. Eggman 13 decks
8 Nekusar, the Mindrazer 12 decks
9 Nicol Bolas, the Ravager // Nicol Bolas, the Arisen 6 decks
10 Obeka, Brute Chronologist 6 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 710,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.