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Part of Tales of Middle-earth
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Legendary Creature — Halfling Peasant
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Tales of Middle-earth Commander (LTC)
Card Preview
The Gaffer
Times Brought
219
Decks Running
124
In Decks
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Decklist Inclusion
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Format
Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.
Card text
The Gaffer
Legendary Creature — Halfling Peasant
At the beginning of each end step, if you gained 3 or more life this turn, draw a card.
2 / 3
Tales of Middle-earth Commander (LTC)
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Rare
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Illustrated by Tomas Duchek
Final zone distribution
58 instances44.8%
Battlefield
34.5%
Graveyard
3.4%
Exile
15.5%
Hand
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit
34 decks
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2
Hope Estheim
13 decks
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3
Sam, Loyal Attendant
10 decks
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4
Ragost, Deft Gastronaut
8 decks
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5
Aerith, Last Ancient
4 decks
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6
Will, Scion of Peace
4 decks
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7
Bilbo, Birthday Celebrant
3 decks
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8
Bre of Clan Stoutarm
3 decks
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9
Giada, Font of Hope
3 decks
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10
Oloro, Ageless Ascetic
3 decks
The "good card" funnel
219 brought · 127 playersBrought to game
219
Ever drawn
52
Reached battlefield
42
Still on board at game end
26
Once cast, 62% 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.
≥ -2.6pp
Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=36) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=119).
Observed gap +6.5pp; 95% confidence interval -2.6pp to +15.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
First-cast turn
n=42
0%
T1
5%
T2
14%
T3
26%
T4
17%
T5
31%
T6-9
7%
T10+
Median
5.0
P25
4
· P75
7
· max
12
On curve
19%
(6 / 42 cast on T3)
Cast same turn as drawn
44%
42 of 100 times cast
42%
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. Playgroup has recorded 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.