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Part of Tales of Middle-earth
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Legendary Artifact
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The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR)
Live Play Data
The One Ring
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Legendary Artifact
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The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR)
8%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
3923
Decks Running
1831
Median Cast Turn
6
Drawn → Played
72%
Format
First-cast turn
n=669
2%
T1
3%
T2
7%
T3
16%
T4
17%
T5
44%
T6-9
11%
T10+
Median
6
P25
4
· P75
8
· max
23
On curve
29%
(108 / 669 cast on T4)
Cast same turn as drawn
38%
The "good card" funnel
3925 brought · 1034 playersBrought to game
3925
Ever drawn
931
Reached battlefield
669
Still on board at game end
546
Once cast, 82% 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.
≥ +8.1pp
Players who cast this card win 39% of the time (n=603) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=2508).
When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=225).
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 +11.9pp; 95% confidence interval +8.1pp to +15.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
Final zone distribution
1065 instances5.1%
Library
51.3%
Battlefield
16.2%
Graveyard
7.2%
Exile
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
Sauron, the Dark Lord
82 decks
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2
The Ur-Dragon
33 decks
- 3 Zhulodok, Void Gorger 28 decks
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4
Smaug the Impenetrable
23 decks
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5
Y'shtola, Night's Blessed
22 decks
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6
Krenko, Mob Boss
20 decks
- 7 Ultron, Artificial Malevolence 20 decks
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8
Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy
19 decks
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9
Vivi Ornitier
19 decks
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10
Lord of the Nazgûl
17 decks
Card text
The One Ring
Legendary Artifact
Indestructible
When The One Ring enters, if you cast it, you gain protection from everything until your next turn.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life for each burden counter on The One Ring.
: Put a burden counter on The One Ring, then draw a card for each burden counter on The One Ring.
: Put a burden counter on The One Ring, then draw a card for each burden counter on The One Ring.
The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR)
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Mythic
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Illustrated by Veli Nyström
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 670,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.