Live Play Data

Sam, Loyal Attendant

· Legendary Creature — Halfling Peasant · Tales of Middle-earth Commander (LTC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

143

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

70%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=385

16%

30%

12%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 3 · P75 4 · max 14

On curve 48% (114 / 385 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 39%

The "good card" funnel

143 brought · 84 players

Brought to game

143

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 58% 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.

≥ -7.7pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=28) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=83).

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 +9.9pp; 95% confidence interval -7.7pp to +27.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

47 instances

38.3%

Battlefield

23.4%

Graveyard

6.4%

Exile

31.9%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Sam, Loyal Attendant

Legendary Creature — Halfling Peasant

Partner with Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit (When this creature enters, target player may put Frodo into their hand from their library, then shuffle.) At the beginning of combat on your turn, create a Food token. (It's an artifact with " {2}

, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.") Activated abilities of Foods you control cost {1}

less to activate.

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Tales of Middle-earth Commander (LTC) · Mythic · Illustrated by Campbell White

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.