Live Play Data

Rise of the Witch-king

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

537

Decks Running

272

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

52%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=69

16%

65%

T6-9

16%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 8 · max 11

On curve 3% (2 / 69 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 23%

The "good card" funnel

537 brought · 252 players

Brought to game

537

Ever drawn

132

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -4.1pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=65) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=326).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 21% (n=58).

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 +7.3pp; 95% confidence interval -4.1pp to +18.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

169 instances

4.7%

Library

0.6%

Battlefield

58.6%

Graveyard

7.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Rise of the Witch-king

Sorcery

Each player sacrifices a creature of their choice. If you sacrificed a creature this way, you may return another permanent card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

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

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.