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Sauron, Lord of the Rings

· Legendary Creature — Avatar Horror · Tales of Middle-earth Commander (LTC)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

192

Decks Running

100

In Decks

620

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Sauron, Lord of the Rings

Legendary Creature — Avatar Horror

When you cast this spell, amass Orcs 5, mill five cards, then return a creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Trample Whenever a commander an opponent controls dies, the Ring tempts you.

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Tales of Middle-earth Commander (LTC) · Mythic · Illustrated by Alex Brock

Final zone distribution

118 instances

2.5%

Library

36.4%

Battlefield

8.5%

Graveyard

1.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

193 brought · 82 players

Brought to game

193

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 48% 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.

≥ -4.0pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=26) , vs 16% when it never left the library (n=117).

Observed gap +13.0pp; 95% confidence interval -4.0pp to +30.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=27

44%

T6-9

48%

T10+

Median 9 P25 8 · P75 12 · max 20

On curve 48% (7 / 27 cast on T8)

27 of 100 times cast 27%

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

Frequently Asked

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.