Live Play Data

Settle the Wreckage

· Instant · The Hobbit (HOB)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

312

Decks Running

154

Median Cast Turn

8.5

Drawn → Played

59%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=38

61%

T6-9

34%

T10+

Median 8.5 P25 7 · P75 11 · max 17

On curve 0% (0 / 38 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 26%

The "good card" funnel

312 brought · 141 players

Brought to game

312

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -15.9pp

Players who cast this card win 20% of the time (n=37) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=208).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 34% (n=23).

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 -3.3pp; 95% confidence interval -15.9pp to +9.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

71 instances

7.0%

Library

7.0%

Battlefield

43.7%

Graveyard

12.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Thorin, King of Durin's Folk 14 decks
2 Darien, King of Kjeldor 8 decks
3 Bard, King of Dale 7 decks
4 Kynaios and Tiro of Meletis 5 decks
5 Dáin of the Ancient Halls 4 decks
6 Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines 4 decks
7 Leonardo, the Balance 4 decks
8 Gluntch, the Bestower 3 decks
9 Queen Marchesa 3 decks
10 Zurgo Stormrender 3 decks

Card text

Settle the Wreckage

Instant

Exile all attacking creatures target player controls. That player may search their library for that many basic land cards, put those cards onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

The Hobbit (HOB) · Rare · Illustrated by Chris Cold

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 670,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.