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Part of Tales of Middle-earth
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Instant
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The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR)
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Sauron's Ransom
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Instant
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The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR)
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Decklist Inclusion
Times Brought
117
Decks Running
64
In Decks
464
Decklist Inclusion
0%
Format
Card text
Sauron's Ransom
Instant
Choose an opponent. They look at the top four cards of your library and separate them into a face-down pile and a face-up pile. Put one pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard. The Ring tempts you.
The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR)
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Rare
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Illustrated by Alex Brock
Final zone distribution
36 instances2.8%
Battlefield
66.7%
Graveyard
8.3%
Exile
22.2%
Hand
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
Sauron, the Dark Lord
34 decks
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2
Lord of the Nazgûl
14 decks
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3
Sauron, Lord of the Rings
8 decks
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4
The Celestial Toymaker
4 decks
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5
Otrimi, the Ever-Playful
1 decks
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6
Saruman of Many Colors
1 decks
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7
Saruman, the White Hand
1 decks
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8
The Scarab God
1 decks
The "good card" funnel
117 brought · 58 playersBrought to game
117
Ever drawn
31
Reached battlefield
17
Still on board at game end
1
≥ -0.2pp
Players who cast this card win 42% of the time (n=15) , vs 17% when it never left the library (n=70).
Observed gap +24.9pp; 95% confidence interval -0.2pp to +50.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
17 of 100 times cast
17%
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.