Live Play Data

Storm of Saruman

· Enchantment · The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

264

Decks Running

136

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

56%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=34

12%

59%

T6-9

15%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 20

On curve 47% (7 / 34 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 30%

The "good card" funnel

264 brought · 129 players

Brought to game

264

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 74% 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.

≥ -0.8pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=31) , vs 18% when it never left the library (n=165).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 31% (n=24).

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 +15.2pp; 95% confidence interval -0.8pp to +31.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

72 instances

2.8%

Library

34.7%

Battlefield

26.4%

Graveyard

8.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

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.)

The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR) · Mythic · 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 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.