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Part of Tales of Middle-earth
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Sorcery
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The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR)
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The Battle of Bywater
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Sorcery
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The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR)
1%
Decklist Inclusion
Times Brought
140
Decks Running
71
In Decks
648
Decklist Inclusion
1%
Format
Final zone distribution
40 instances7.5%
Library
2.5%
Battlefield
47.5%
Graveyard
15.0%
Exile
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
Arabella, Abandoned Doll
12 decks
-
2
Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit
12 decks
-
3
Ragost, Deft Gastronaut
6 decks
-
4
Arcades, the Strategist
4 decks
-
5
Felothar the Steadfast
3 decks
-
6
MacCready, Lamplight Mayor
3 decks
-
7
Sam, Loyal Attendant
3 decks
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8
Y'shtola, Night's Blessed
3 decks
-
9
Delney, Streetwise Lookout
2 decks
-
10
Merry, Warden of Isengard
2 decks
The "good card" funnel
140 brought · 68 playersBrought to game
140
Ever drawn
39
Reached battlefield
25
Still on board at game end
1
≥ -10.1pp
Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=25) , vs 18% when it never left the library (n=92).
Observed gap +7.5pp; 95% confidence interval -10.1pp to +25.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
First-cast turn
n=25
0%
T1
0%
T2
0%
T3
4%
T4
12%
T5
60%
T6-9
24%
T10+
Median
8
P25
6
· P75
9
· max
14
On curve
0%
(0 / 25 cast on T3)
Cast same turn as drawn
35%
25 of 100 times cast
25%
Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.
Frequently Asked
Why isn't there more data on this card?
Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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.