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Part of Tales of Middle-earth
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Enchantment
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The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR)
Live Play Data
Storm of Saruman
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Enchantment
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The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR)
1%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
393
Decks Running
184
Median Cast Turn
7.0
Drawn → Played
49%
Format
First-cast turn
n=52
0%
T1
0%
T2
6%
T3
6%
T4
13%
T5
63%
T6-9
12%
T10+
Median
7.0
P25
6
· P75
8
· max
20
On curve
44%
(10 / 52 cast on T6)
Cast same turn as drawn
34%
The "good card" funnel
393 brought · 175 playersBrought to game
393
Ever drawn
106
Reached battlefield
52
Still on board at game end
38
Once cast, 73% 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.
≥ +3.4pp
Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=45) , vs 18% when it never left the library (n=231).
When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 20% (n=49).
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 +17.0pp; 95% confidence interval +3.4pp to +30.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
Final zone distribution
121 instances2.5%
Library
31.4%
Battlefield
23.1%
Graveyard
7.4%
Exile
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
Saruman of Many Colors
21 decks
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2
Lord of the Nazgûl
16 decks
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3
Saruman, the White Hand
15 decks
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4
Sauron, the Dark Lord
12 decks
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5
Aminatou, Veil Piercer
11 decks
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6
Alisaie Leveilleur
7 decks
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7
Gandalf, Party Guest
6 decks
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8
Imoti, Celebrant of Bounty
6 decks
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9
Alania, Divergent Storm
4 decks
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10
Alphinaud Leveilleur
4 decks
Card text
Storm of Saruman
Enchantment
Ward 
Whenever you cast your second spell each turn, copy it, except the copy isn't legendary. You may choose new targets for the copy. (A copy of a permanent spell becomes a token.)
Whenever you cast your second spell each turn, copy it, except the copy isn't legendary. You may choose new targets for the copy. (A copy of a permanent spell becomes a token.)
The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR)
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Mythic
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Illustrated by Lorenzo Lanfranconi
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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.