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Summons of Saruman

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

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

173

Decks Running

In Decks

589

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

Final zone distribution

54 instances

7.4%

Library

1.9%

Battlefield

53.7%

Graveyard

9.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sauron, Lord of the Rings 39 decks
2 Sauron, the Dark Lord 38 decks
3 Saruman, the White Hand 12 decks
4 The Emperor of Palamecia // The Lord Master of Hell 3 decks
5 Marchesa, the Black Rose 1 decks
6 Stella Lee, Wild Card 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

173 brought · 82 players

Brought to game

173

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ +4.4pp

Players who cast this card win 45% of the time (n=23) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=102).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 20% (n=23) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +23.9pp; 95% confidence interval +4.4pp to +43.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=24

75%

T6-9

21%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 8 · max 14

Cast same turn as drawn 29%

24 of 100 times cast 24%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

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Why isn't there more data on this card?

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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.