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#11 in Selesnya Commander Staples
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Legendary Creature — Halfling Peasant
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The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR)
Live Play Data
Samwise Gamgee
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Legendary Creature — Halfling Peasant
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The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR)
2%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
209
Decks Running
70
Median Cast Turn
5.5
Drawn → Played
76%
Format
First-cast turn
n=38
11%
T1
11%
T2
5%
T3
11%
T4
13%
T5
45%
T6-9
5%
T10+
Median
5.5
P25
3
· P75
7
· max
12
On curve
21%
(4 / 38 cast on T2)
Cast same turn as drawn
40%
The "good card" funnel
209 brought · 100 playersBrought to game
209
Ever drawn
50
Reached battlefield
38
Still on board at game end
21
Once cast, 45% 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.
≥ -14.2pp
Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=36) , vs 26% 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 +0.8pp; 95% confidence interval -14.2pp to +15.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
Final zone distribution
60 instances3.3%
Library
35.0%
Battlefield
33.3%
Graveyard
8.3%
Exile
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit
30 decks
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2
Sam, Loyal Attendant
12 decks
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3
Rocco, Street Chef
9 decks
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4
Aragorn, the Uniter
6 decks
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5
Merry, Warden of Isengard
6 decks
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6
Brenard, Ginger Sculptor
5 decks
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7
Sophia, Dogged Detective
4 decks
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8
Jodah, the Unifier
3 decks
-
9
Pippin, Warden of Isengard
3 decks
-
10
Samwise Gamgee
3 decks
Card text
Samwise Gamgee
Legendary Creature — Halfling Peasant
Whenever another nontoken creature you control enters, create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "
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, 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.)
, , 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.)2 / 2
The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR)
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Rare
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Illustrated by Ekaterina Burmak
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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.