Live Play Data

Swarming of Moria

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

123

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

—

Drawn → Played

62%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=16

Not enough observed casts yet to show a reliable distribution.

The "good card" funnel

123 brought · 63 players

Brought to game

123

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -15.9pp

Players who cast this card win 14% of the time (n=16) , vs 14% when it never left the library (n=80).

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 +0.3pp; 95% confidence interval -15.9pp to +16.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

32 instances

6.3%

Library

3.1%

Battlefield

62.5%

Graveyard

6.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sauron, the Dark Lord 29 decks
2 Saruman, the White Hand 12 decks
3 The Great Goblin 11 decks
4 Zurgo Helmsmasher 3 decks
5 Smaug, Wicked Worm 2 decks
6 Bilbo, Retired Burglar 1 decks
7 Dáin of the Ancient Halls 1 decks
8 Great Goblin, Foul-Hearted 1 decks
9 Nicol Bolas, the Ravager // Nicol Bolas, the Arisen 1 decks
10 Sauron, Lord of the Rings 1 decks

Card text

Swarming of Moria

Sorcery

Create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with " {T}

, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.") Amass Orcs 2. (Put two +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.)

The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR) · Common · Illustrated by Pavel Kolomeyets

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.