Live Play Data

The Mountain-king's Return

· Enchantment — Saga · The Hobbit (HOB)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

177

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

53%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=20

15%

10%

15%

35%

T6-9

20%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 15

On curve 20% (3 / 20 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 50%

The "good card" funnel

177 brought · 75 players

Brought to game

177

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 40% 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.

≥ -8.5pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=16) , vs 14% when it never left the library (n=116).

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 +14.1pp; 95% confidence interval -8.5pp to +36.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

39 instances

2.6%

Library

20.5%

Battlefield

41.0%

Graveyard

5.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Bard, King of Dale 13 decks
2 Thorin, King of Durin's Folk 8 decks
3 Garnet, Princess of Alexandria 6 decks
4 Tom Bombadil 6 decks
5 Thorin Oakenshield 5 decks
6 Dáin of the Ancient Halls 3 decks
7 Aragorn, the Uniter 2 decks
8 Bifur, Melodic Rider 2 decks
9 Éowyn, Shieldmaiden 2 decks
10 Koll, the Forgemaster 2 decks

Card text

The Mountain-king's Return

Enchantment — Saga

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.) I — Recruit. (Draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded a nonland card, create a 1/1 white Human Soldier creature token.) II — Return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. III — Put a +1/+1 counter on up to one target creature.

The Hobbit (HOB) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Rovina Cai

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.