Live Play Data

The Queen of Dale

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

753

Decks Running

362

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

77%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=165

12%

32%

11%

25%

T6-9

T10+

Median 3 P25 2 · P75 6 · max 12

On curve 44% (52 / 165 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 48%

The "good card" funnel

755 brought · 301 players

Brought to game

755

Ever drawn

177

Reached battlefield

137

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 43% 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.

≥ +2.7pp

Players who cast this card win 37% of the time (n=125) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=469).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 16% (n=38).

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 +11.8pp; 95% confidence interval +2.7pp to +21.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

198 instances

2.5%

Library

29.8%

Battlefield

45.5%

Graveyard

6.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

The Queen of Dale

Legendary Creature — Human Noble

Whenever an opponent casts their first noncreature spell each turn, you recruit. (Draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded a nonland card, create a 1/1 white Human Soldier creature token.)

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The Hobbit (HOB) · Mythic · Illustrated by Magali Villeneuve

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 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.