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The Gaffer

· Legendary Creature — Halfling Peasant · Tales of Middle-earth Commander (LTC)

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Times Brought

197

Decks Running

111

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

Final zone distribution

54 instances

48.1%

Battlefield

33.3%

Graveyard

3.7%

Exile

13.0%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit 33 decks
2 Hope Estheim 12 decks
3 Sam, Loyal Attendant 9 decks
4 Ragost, Deft Gastronaut 7 decks
5 Aerith, Last Ancient 3 decks
6 Bre of Clan Stoutarm 3 decks
7 Oloro, Ageless Ascetic 3 decks
8 Qala, Ajani's Pridemate 3 decks
9 Sorin of House Markov // Sorin, Ravenous Neonate 3 decks
10 Will, Scion of Peace 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

197 brought · 114 players

Brought to game

197

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 63% 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.

≥ +0.1pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=34) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=111).

Observed gap +9.3pp; 95% confidence interval +0.1pp to +18.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=41

12%

27%

17%

32%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 12

On curve 17% (5 / 41 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 42%

41 of 100 times cast 41%

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 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.