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Roaming Throne

· Artifact Creature — Golem · The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI)

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Times Brought

2172

Decks Running

1128

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

Card text

Roaming Throne

Artifact Creature — Golem

Ward

As this creature enters, choose a creature type. This creature is the chosen type in addition to its other types. If a triggered ability of another creature you control of the chosen type triggers, it triggers an additional time.

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The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI) · Rare · Illustrated by Cristi Balanescu

Final zone distribution

492 instances

2.2%

Library

47.0%

Battlefield

19.5%

Graveyard

5.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 The Ur-Dragon 62 decks
2 Zada, Hedron Grinder 35 decks
3 Pantlaza, Sun-Favored 33 decks
4 Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm 26 decks
5 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness 21 decks
6 Krenko, Mob Boss 19 decks
7 Hakbal of the Surging Soul 15 decks
8 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 14 decks
9 Kratos, Stoic Father 14 decks
10 Bello, Bard of the Brambles 13 decks

The "good card" funnel

2182 brought · 807 players

Brought to game

2182

Ever drawn

459

Reached battlefield

332

Still on board at game end

231

Once cast, 70% 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.

≥ +2.7pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=280) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=1315).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 20% (n=99) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +5.8pp; 95% confidence interval +2.7pp to +8.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=332

13%

16%

17%

39%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 17

On curve 36% (52 / 332 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 39%

2709 of 300 tracked games 99%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.