Playgroup.gg logo
Playgroup.gg EDH Tracker
collections_bookmark Part of Tales of Middle-earth
Sauron, the Dark Lord card art
Live Play Data

Sauron, the Dark Lord

{3} {U} {B} {R} · Legendary Creature — Avatar Horror · The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR)
1%
Live Inclusion
Buy on TCGplayer
Times Brought
129
Decks Running
59
Median Cast Turn
5.0
Drawn → Played
57%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=332
1%
T1
2%
T2
8%
T3
21%
T4
30%
T5
36%
T6-9
3%
T10+
Median 5.0 P25 4 · P75 6 · max 12
On curve 80% (63 / 332 cast on T6)

The "good card" funnel

129 brought · 56 players
Brought to game
129
Ever drawn
40
Reached battlefield
23
Still on board at game end
14

Once cast, 61% 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.

≥ -8.5pp

Players who cast this card win 36% of the time (n=21) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=69).

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 +11.8pp; 95% confidence interval -8.5pp to +32.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

41 instances
2.4%
Library
34.1%
Battlefield
24.4%
Graveyard
4.9%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Sauron, the Dark Lord card

Sauron, the Dark Lord

{3} {U} {B} {R}
Legendary Creature — Avatar Horror
Ward—Sacrifice a legendary artifact or legendary creature. Whenever an opponent casts a spell, amass Orcs 1. Whenever an Army you control deals combat damage to a player, the Ring tempts you. Whenever the Ring tempts you, you may discard your hand. If you do, draw four cards.
7 / 6
The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR) · Mythic · Illustrated by Kieran Yanner

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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.