Live Play Data

Riders of the Mark

· Creature — Human Knight · The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

183

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

6.5

Drawn → Played

63%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=26

15%

69%

T6-9

15%

T10+

Median 6.5 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 11

On curve 65% (4 / 26 cast on T7) Cast same turn as drawn 29%

The "good card" funnel

183 brought · 66 players

Brought to game

183

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 38% 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.

≥ -12.3pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=25) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=133).

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 +5.1pp; 95% confidence interval -12.3pp to +22.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

42 instances

7.1%

Library

23.8%

Battlefield

23.8%

Graveyard

45.2%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Riders of the Mark

Creature — Human Knight

Affinity for Humans (This spell costs {1}

less to cast for each Human you control.) Trample, haste At the beginning of your end step, if this creature attacked this turn, return it to its owner's hand. If you do, create a number of 1/1 white Human Soldier creature tokens equal to its toughness.

7 / 4

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