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Samwise Gamgee

· Legendary Creature — Halfling Peasant · The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

165

Decks Running

In Decks

823

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Samwise Gamgee

Legendary Creature — Halfling Peasant

Whenever another nontoken creature you control enters, create a Food token. (It's an artifact with " {2}

, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.") Sacrifice three Foods: Return target historic card from your graveyard to your hand. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.)

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The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR) · Rare · Illustrated by Ekaterina Burmak

Final zone distribution

45 instances

2.2%

Library

33.3%

Battlefield

37.8%

Graveyard

8.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

165 brought · 77 players

Brought to game

165

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 41% 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.

≥ -11.7pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=28) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=107).

Observed gap +5.2pp; 95% confidence interval -11.7pp to +22.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=29

14%

10%

17%

41%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 12

On curve 24% (3 / 29 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 46%

29 of 100 times cast 28%

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

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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 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.