Live Play Data

Reverent Howl

· Instant · The Hobbit (HOB)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

129

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

—

Drawn → Played

58%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=19

Not enough observed casts yet to show a reliable distribution.

The "good card" funnel

129 brought · 58 players

Brought to game

129

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -5.8pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=18) , vs 17% when it never left the library (n=81).

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 +15.0pp; 95% confidence interval -5.8pp to +35.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

34 instances

2.9%

Library

5.9%

Battlefield

58.8%

Graveyard

8.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Chief of the Wilds 16 decks
2 The Great Goblin 6 decks
3 Sauron, the Dark Lord 5 decks
4 The Chief Warg 5 decks
5 Kotis, the Fangkeeper 3 decks
6 Saruman, the White Hand 3 decks
7 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 2 decks
8 Mortarion, Daemon Primarch 2 decks
9 Thranduil, the Elvenking 2 decks
10 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 2 decks

Card text

Reverent Howl

Instant

Choose one — • Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life. • Target creature gets +2/+2 and gains lifelink until end of turn.

The Hobbit (HOB) · Common · Illustrated by Antonio José Manzanedo

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.