Live Play Data

Scroll of Isildur

· Enchantment — Saga · The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

321

Decks Running

153

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

70%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=62

18%

11%

45%

T6-9

16%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 12

On curve 10% (5 / 62 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 25%

The "good card" funnel

321 brought · 146 players

Brought to game

321

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 40% 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.

≥ -13.5pp

Players who cast this card win 18% of the time (n=58) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=192).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 34% (n=24).

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 -3.2pp; 95% confidence interval -13.5pp to +7.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

95 instances

3.2%

Library

26.3%

Battlefield

40.0%

Graveyard

6.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Tom Bombadil 72 decks
2 Sauron, the Dark Lord 26 decks
3 Hylda of the Icy Crown 8 decks
4 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice 4 decks
5 Timin, Youthful Geist 4 decks
6 Sensational Spider-Man 3 decks
7 Terra, Magical Adept // Esper Terra 3 decks
8 Gogo, Master of Mimicry 2 decks
9 Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy 2 decks
10 Lord of the Nazgûl 2 decks

Card text

Scroll of Isildur

Enchantment — Saga

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.) I — Gain control of up to one target artifact for as long as you control this Saga. The Ring tempts you. II — Tap up to two target creatures. Put a stun counter on each of them. III — Draw a card for each tapped creature target opponent controls.

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

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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.