Live Play Data

Relic of Sauron

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

415

Decks Running

216

Median Cast Turn

4.5

Drawn → Played

72%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=78

21%

22%

10%

31%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4.5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 11

On curve 50% (17 / 78 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

The "good card" funnel

416 brought · 188 players

Brought to game

416

Ever drawn

109

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.

≥ -0.9pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=67) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=247).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 48% (n=25).

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 +10.1pp; 95% confidence interval -0.9pp to +21.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

120 instances

3.3%

Library

53.3%

Battlefield

16.7%

Graveyard

8.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sauron, the Dark Lord 74 decks
2 Sauron, Lord of the Rings 45 decks
3 Be'lakor, the Dark Master 11 decks
4 Nekusar, the Mindrazer 9 decks
5 Saruman, the White Hand 9 decks
6 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 7 decks
7 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 6 decks
8 Dr. Eggman 4 decks
9 Nicol Bolas, the Ravager // Nicol Bolas, the Arisen 4 decks
10 Edward Kenway 3 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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.