Live Play Data

Shire Shirriff

· Creature — Halfling Soldier · The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

129

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

63%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=24

21%

54%

T6-9

17%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 13

On curve 8% (1 / 24 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 32%

The "good card" funnel

129 brought · 72 players

Brought to game

129

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.

≥ -15.6pp

Players who cast this card win 24% of the time (n=18) , vs 19% when it never left the library (n=79).

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 +4.3pp; 95% confidence interval -15.6pp to +24.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

38 instances

23.7%

Battlefield

28.9%

Graveyard

13.2%

Exile

34.2%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit 49 decks
2 Sam, Loyal Attendant 12 decks
3 Merry, Warden of Isengard 3 decks
4 Bilbo, Birthday Celebrant 2 decks
5 Lucy MacLean, Positively Armed 2 decks
6 Treebeard, Gracious Host 2 decks
7 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 1 decks
8 Baylen, the Haymaker 1 decks
9 Farmer Cotton 1 decks
10 Isshin, Two Heavens as One 1 decks

Card text

Shire Shirriff

Creature — Halfling Soldier

Vigilance When this creature enters, you may sacrifice a token. When you do, exile target creature an opponent controls until this creature leaves the battlefield.

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The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Craig J Spearing

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 710,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.