Live Play Data

Shelob, Dread Weaver

· Legendary Creature — Spider Demon · Tales of Middle-earth Commander (LTC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

228

Decks Running

131

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

67%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=43

16%

19%

42%

T6-9

16%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 13

On curve 23% (7 / 43 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 28%

The "good card" funnel

228 brought · 121 players

Brought to game

228

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 38% 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.

≥ -15.0pp

Players who cast this card win 14% of the time (n=39) , vs 17% when it never left the library (n=134).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 19% (n=21).

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 -15.0pp to +8.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

71 instances

2.8%

Library

22.5%

Battlefield

42.3%

Graveyard

11.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sauron, Lord of the Rings 48 decks
2 Shelob, Child of Ungoliant 31 decks
3 Sauron, the Dark Lord 23 decks
4 Cosmic Spider-Man 8 decks
5 Saruman, the White Hand 3 decks
6 Thantis, the Warweaver 3 decks
7 Be'lakor, the Dark Master 1 decks
8 Betor, Ancestor's Voice 1 decks
9 Blech, Loafing Pest 1 decks
10 Eddie Brock // Venom, Lethal Protector 1 decks

Card text

Shelob, Dread Weaver

Legendary Creature — Spider Demon

Whenever a nontoken creature an opponent controls dies, exile it. {2}

, Put a creature card exiled with Shelob into its owner's graveyard: Put two +1/+1 counters on Shelob. Draw a card. {X}

: Put target creature card with mana value X exiled with Shelob onto the battlefield tapped under your control.

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Tales of Middle-earth Commander (LTC) · Rare · Illustrated by Warren Mahy

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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.