Live Play Data

The Mountain-king's Return

· Enchantment — Saga · The Hobbit (HOB)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

105

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

—

Drawn → Played

56%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=15

Not enough observed casts yet to show a reliable distribution.

The "good card" funnel

105 brought · 50 players

Brought to game

105

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Final zone distribution

28 instances

3.6%

Library

21.4%

Battlefield

42.9%

Graveyard

3.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Bard, King of Dale 10 decks
2 Thorin, King of Durin's Folk 5 decks
3 Thorin Oakenshield 4 decks
4 Tom Bombadil 4 decks
5 Dáin of the Ancient Halls 3 decks
6 Garnet, Princess of Alexandria 3 decks
7 Bifur, Melodic Rider 2 decks
8 Abigale, Poet Laureate // Heroic Stanza 1 decks
9 Aragorn, King of Gondor 1 decks
10 Aragorn, the Uniter 1 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

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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.

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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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.