Live Play Data

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· Instant · The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

2938

Decks Running

1241

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

62%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=397

10%

13%

56%

T6-9

14%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 22

On curve 1% (5 / 397 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 27%

The "good card" funnel

2944 brought · 973 players

Brought to game

2944

Ever drawn

642

Reached battlefield

397

Still on board at game end

≥ +1.0pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=365) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=1963).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=225).

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 +5.8pp; 95% confidence interval +1.0pp to +10.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

718 instances

3.6%

Library

2.5%

Battlefield

56.5%

Graveyard

7.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 49 decks
2 Thorin, King of Durin's Folk 36 decks
3 Dack Fayden, Helping Hand 34 decks
4 Giada, Font of Hope 32 decks
5 Mr. House, President and CEO 29 decks
6 Whtz, the Bibliophile 29 decks
7 Ekthi, Contaminator Priest 21 decks
8 Cloud, Midgar Mercenary 17 decks
9 Cosmic Spider-Man 16 decks
10 Lorehold, the Historian 15 decks

Card text

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Return target spell to its owner's hand. Draw a card.

The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Justyna Dura

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.