Live Play Data

The Lord of the Eagles

· Legendary Creature — Bird Noble · The Hobbit (HOB)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

221

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

65%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=46

24%

54%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 7 · max 12

On curve 91% (0 / 46 cast on T9) Cast same turn as drawn 28%

The "good card" funnel

221 brought · 66 players

Brought to game

221

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 55% 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.

≥ -0.3pp

Players who cast this card win 41% of the time (n=30) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=140).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 55% (n=16).

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 +18.2pp; 95% confidence interval -0.3pp to +36.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

61 instances

1.6%

Library

29.5%

Battlefield

31.1%

Graveyard

9.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

The Lord of the Eagles

Legendary Creature — Bird Noble

Flash This spell costs {X}

less to cast, where X is the total power of creatures you control with flying. Flying

8 / 8

The Hobbit (HOB) · Rare · Illustrated by Zezhou Chen

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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.