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Legendary Creature — Avatar Horror
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The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR)
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Sauron, the Dark Lord
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Legendary Creature — Avatar Horror
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The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR)
1%
Decklist Inclusion
Times Brought
164
Decks Running
94
In Decks
712
Decklist Inclusion
1%
Format
Final zone distribution
150 instances2.0%
Library
50.7%
Battlefield
4.0%
Graveyard
0.7%
Exile
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
Sauron, the Dark Lord
76 decks
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2
Sauron, Lord of the Rings
6 decks
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3
Jodah, the Unifier
5 decks
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4
Saruman, the White Hand
4 decks
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5
Morophon, the Boundless
1 decks
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6
Sisay, Weatherlight Captain
1 decks
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7
Thanos, the Mad Titan
1 decks
The "good card" funnel
166 brought · 86 playersBrought to game
166
Ever drawn
27
Reached battlefield
24
Still on board at game end
76
Once cast, 54% 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.
≥ -23.0pp
Players who cast this card win 14% of the time (n=24) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=77).
Observed gap -7.9pp; 95% confidence interval -23.0pp to +7.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
First-cast turn
n=24
0%
T1
0%
T2
8%
T3
4%
T4
4%
T5
54%
T6-9
29%
T10+
Median
6.5
P25
6
· P75
10
· max
13
On curve
50%
(8 / 24 cast on T6)
24 of 100 times cast
24%
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 640,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.