Live Play Data

Samwise Gamgee

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

712

Decks Running

235

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

75%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=165

22%

11%

38%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 18

On curve 23% (37 / 165 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 37%

The "good card" funnel

712 brought · 304 players

Brought to game

712

Ever drawn

196

Reached battlefield

147

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 53% 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.

≥ -1.6pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=133) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=426).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 27% (n=36).

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 +7.1pp; 95% confidence interval -1.6pp to +15.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

210 instances

2.4%

Library

37.1%

Battlefield

36.7%

Graveyard

6.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

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

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 780,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.