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Live Play Data

Soothing of Sméagol

{1} {U} · Instant · The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR)
1%
Live Inclusion
Buy on TCGplayer
Times Brought
277
Decks Running
127
Median Cast Turn
7
Drawn → Played
73%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=45
0%
T1
0%
T2
4%
T3
9%
T4
11%
T5
64%
T6-9
11%
T10+
Median 7 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 12
On curve 0% (0 / 45 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 18%

The "good card" funnel

277 brought · 120 players
Brought to game
277
Ever drawn
62
Reached battlefield
45
Still on board at game end
2
≥ -11.9pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=41) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=177).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=15).

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 +2.5pp; 95% confidence interval -11.9pp to +16.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

73 instances
2.7%
Library
2.7%
Battlefield
68.5%
Graveyard
15.1%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Soothing of Sméagol card

Soothing of Sméagol

{1} {U}
Instant
Return target nontoken creature to its owner's hand. The Ring tempts you.
The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR) · Common · Illustrated by Lixin Yin

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.