Live Play Data

Summons of Saruman

· Sorcery · Tales of Middle-earth Commander (LTC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

440

Decks Running

212

Median Cast Turn

8.0

Drawn → Played

56%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=68

62%

T6-9

25%

T10+

Median 8.0 P25 6 · P75 10 · max 14

Cast same turn as drawn 27%

The "good card" funnel

440 brought · 187 players

Brought to game

440

Ever drawn

121

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ +0.7pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=62) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=243).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 18% (n=48).

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 +11.9pp; 95% confidence interval +0.7pp to +23.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

145 instances

4.1%

Library

1.4%

Battlefield

57.2%

Graveyard

11.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sauron, the Dark Lord 90 decks
2 Sauron, Lord of the Rings 72 decks
3 Saruman, the White Hand 34 decks
4 The Emperor of Palamecia // The Lord Master of Hell 9 decks
5 Vivi Ornitier 2 decks
6 Davros, Dalek Creator 1 decks
7 Gandalf, Party Guest 1 decks
8 Marchesa, the Black Rose 1 decks
9 Saruman the White 1 decks
10 Stella Lee, Wild Card 1 decks

Card text

Summons of Saruman

Sorcery

Amass Orcs X. Mill X cards. You may cast an instant or sorcery spell with mana value X or less from among them without paying its mana cost. (To amass Orcs X, put X +1/+1 counters on an Army you control. It's also an Orc. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Orc Army creature token first.) Flashback— {3}

, Exile X cards from your graveyard.

Tales of Middle-earth Commander (LTC) · Rare · Illustrated by Svetlin Velinov

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.