Live Play Data

The One Ring

· Legendary Artifact · The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

14051

Decks Running

5516

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

72%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=2465

14%

16%

48%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 24

On curve 24% (355 / 2465 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 37%

The "good card" funnel

14053 brought · 2768 players

Brought to game

14053

Ever drawn

3424

Reached battlefield

2465

Still on board at game end

2047

Once cast, 83% 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.

≥ +11.8pp

Players who cast this card win 40% of the time (n=2382) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=9316).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 33% (n=889).

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 +13.9pp; 95% confidence interval +11.8pp to +15.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

3822 instances

3.8%

Library

53.6%

Battlefield

15.5%

Graveyard

6.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

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. {T}

: 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) · Mythic · 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 780,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.