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Live Play Data

Smaug the Impenetrable

{5} {B} {R} · Legendary Creature — Dragon · The Hobbit Eternal (HOC)
1%
Live Inclusion
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Times Brought
340
Decks Running
122
Median Cast Turn
6
Drawn → Played
64%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=369
0%
T1
1%
T2
3%
T3
17%
T4
25%
T5
51%
T6-9
3%
T10+
Median 6 P25 5 · P75 7 · max 16
On curve 88% (58 / 369 cast on T7) Cast same turn as drawn 32%

The "good card" funnel

340 brought · 120 players
Brought to game
340
Ever drawn
75
Reached battlefield
48
Still on board at game end
32

Once cast, 67% 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.

≥ -11.2pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=39) , vs 30% when it never left the library (n=216).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 17% (n=25).

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 +3.8pp; 95% confidence interval -11.2pp to +18.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

85 instances
37.6%
Battlefield
21.2%
Graveyard
9.4%
Exile
30.6%
Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Smaug the Impenetrable card

Smaug the Impenetrable

{5} {B} {R}
Legendary Creature — Dragon
Flying, indestructible, haste Whenever Smaug is dealt noncombat damage, create that many Treasure tokens.
8 / 7
The Hobbit Eternal (HOC) · Rare · Illustrated by Marta Nael

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.