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There and Back Again

· Enchantment — Saga · The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR)

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Times Brought

812

Decks Running

373

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

—

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

Card text

There and Back Again

Enchantment — Saga

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.) I — Up to one target creature can't block for as long as you control this Saga. The Ring tempts you. II — Search your library for a Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. III — Create Smaug, a legendary 6/6 red Dragon creature token with flying, haste, and "When Smaug dies, create fourteen Treasure tokens."

The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR) · Rare · Illustrated by Jarel Threat

Final zone distribution

166 instances

1.8%

Library

30.7%

Battlefield

31.3%

Graveyard

7.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Tom Bombadil 73 decks
2 Smaug the Magnificent 46 decks
3 Thorin, King of Durin's Folk 35 decks
4 Sauron, the Dark Lord 30 decks
5 Smaug the Impenetrable 25 decks
6 Knuckles the Echidna 12 decks
7 Terra, Magical Adept // Esper Terra 10 decks
8 Magda, Brazen Outlaw 8 decks
9 Smaug, Wicked Worm 7 decks
10 Korvold, Fae-Cursed King 6 decks

The "good card" funnel

812 brought · 333 players

Brought to game

812

Ever drawn

157

Reached battlefield

101

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 51% 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.

≥ -1.4pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=96) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=575).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=53).

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 +4.0pp; 95% confidence interval -1.4pp to +9.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=101

20%

57%

T6-9

14%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 12

On curve 29% (20 / 101 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 21%

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.