Live Play Data

Stone by Sunlight

· Instant · The Hobbit (HOB)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

212

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

64%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=28

18%

64%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 10

On curve 0% (0 / 28 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 12%

The "good card" funnel

212 brought · 71 players

Brought to game

212

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -18.2pp

Players who cast this card win 7% of the time (n=23) , vs 14% when it never left the library (n=135).

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 -7.7pp; 95% confidence interval -18.2pp to +2.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

50 instances

2.0%

Library

4.0%

Battlefield

68.0%

Graveyard

2.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Thorin, King of Durin's Folk 25 decks
2 Bard, King of Dale 7 decks
3 Gandalf, Party Guest 6 decks
4 Dáin of the Ancient Halls 5 decks
5 Bifur, Melodic Rider 3 decks
6 Kudo, King Among Bears 3 decks
7 Toph, the First Metalbender 3 decks
8 Captain America, Living Legend 2 decks
9 Dwalin, Weaponmaster 2 decks
10 Miles Morales // Ultimate Spider-Man 2 decks

Card text

Stone by Sunlight

Instant

Choose one — • Destroy target creature with power 4 or greater. • Until end of turn, target creature becomes an artifact in addition to its other types and gains indestructible. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

The Hobbit (HOB) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Kamila Szutenberg

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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.