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Legendary Creature — Halfling Horror
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The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR)
Live Play Data
Sméagol, Helpful Guide
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Legendary Creature — Halfling Horror
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The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR)
0%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
119
Decks Running
13
Median Cast Turn
4.0
Drawn → Played
88%
Format
First-cast turn
n=56
5%
T1
25%
T2
16%
T3
18%
T4
9%
T5
23%
T6-9
4%
T10+
Median
4.0
P25
2
· P75
6
· max
10
On curve
46%
(9 / 56 cast on T3)
Cast same turn as drawn
25%
The "good card" funnel
119 brought · 42 playersBrought to game
119
Ever drawn
25
Reached battlefield
22
Still on board at game end
6
Once cast, 27% 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.
≥ -16.0pp
Players who cast this card win 37% of the time (n=21) , vs 32% when it never left the library (n=78).
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 +5.2pp; 95% confidence interval -16.0pp to +26.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
Final zone distribution
27 instances7.4%
Library
22.2%
Battlefield
48.1%
Graveyard
14.8%
Exile
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit
19 decks
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2
Sam, Loyal Attendant
11 decks
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3
Meren of Clan Nel Toth
3 decks
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4
Atraxa, Praetors' Voice
2 decks
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5
Sauron, Lord of the Rings
2 decks
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6
Eddie Brock // Venom, Lethal Protector
1 decks
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7
Jodah, the Unifier
1 decks
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8
Myrkul, Lord of Bones
1 decks
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9
Savra, Queen of the Golgari
1 decks
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10
Shelob, Child of Ungoliant
1 decks
Card text
Sméagol, Helpful Guide
Legendary Creature — Halfling Horror
At the beginning of your end step, if a creature died under your control this turn, the Ring tempts you.
Whenever the Ring tempts you, target opponent reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal a land card. Put that card onto the battlefield tapped under your control and the rest into their graveyard.
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The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR)
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Rare
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Illustrated by Campbell White
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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.