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Part of Tales of Middle-earth
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Instant
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The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR)
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Soothing of Sméagol
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Instant
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The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR)
0%
Decklist Inclusion
Times Brought
118
Decks Running
59
In Decks
380
Decklist Inclusion
0%
Format
Card text
Soothing of Sméagol
Instant
Return target nontoken creature to its owner's hand. The Ring tempts you.
The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR)
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Common
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Illustrated by Lixin Yin
Final zone distribution
28 instances3.6%
Library
7.1%
Battlefield
71.4%
Graveyard
10.7%
Exile
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
Sauron, the Dark Lord
31 decks
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2
Lord of the Nazgûl
17 decks
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3
Bilbo, Retired Burglar
2 decks
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4
Galadriel of Lothlórien
2 decks
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5
Aragorn, the Uniter
1 decks
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6
Bilbo, Thief in the Night
1 decks
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7
Gandalf of the Secret Fire
1 decks
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8
Gran-Gran
1 decks
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9
Gríma, Saruman's Footman
1 decks
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10
Jodah, the Unifier
1 decks
The "good card" funnel
118 brought · 57 playersBrought to game
118
Ever drawn
23
Reached battlefield
17
Still on board at game end
2
≥ -25.3pp
Players who cast this card win 23% of the time (n=16) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=80).
Observed gap -4.1pp; 95% confidence interval -25.3pp to +17.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
17 of 100 times cast
17%
Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.
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Why isn't there more data on this card?
Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.