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Samwise Gamgee

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

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Times Brought

150

Decks Running

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

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

32 instances

53.1%

Battlefield

21.9%

Graveyard

6.3%

Exile

18.8%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

150 brought · 68 players

Brought to game

150

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -5.6pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=15) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=92).

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 +7.8pp; 95% confidence interval -5.6pp to +21.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

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.