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Sauron, the Necromancer

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

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

131

Decks Running

In Decks

392

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Sauron, the Necromancer

Legendary Creature — Avatar Horror

Menace Whenever Sauron attacks, exile target creature card from your graveyard. Create a tapped and attacking token that's a copy of that card, except it's a 3/3 black Wraith with menace. At the beginning of the next end step, exile that token unless Sauron is your Ring-bearer.

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The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR) · Rare · Illustrated by Yongjae Choi

Final zone distribution

38 instances

31.6%

Battlefield

31.6%

Graveyard

15.8%

Exile

18.4%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

131 brought · 65 players

Brought to game

131

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -25.8pp

Players who cast this card win 18% of the time (n=18) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=80).

Observed gap -7.2pp; 95% confidence interval -25.8pp to +11.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

19 of 100 times cast 19%

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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.