Live Play Data

Thorin Oakenshield

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

683

Decks Running

270

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

82%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=141

12%

13%

14%

36%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 16

On curve 13% (17 / 141 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 45%

The "good card" funnel

683 brought · 239 players

Brought to game

683

Ever drawn

154

Reached battlefield

126

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 48% 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.

≥ -6.1pp

Players who cast this card win 22% of the time (n=110) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=430).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 14% (n=25).

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 +2.3pp; 95% confidence interval -6.1pp to +10.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

167 instances

2.4%

Library

35.9%

Battlefield

44.9%

Graveyard

6.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Thorin, King of Durin's Folk 128 decks
2 Dáin of the Ancient Halls 60 decks
3 Dwalin, Weaponmaster 11 decks
4 Bifur, Melodic Rider 9 decks
5 Bruenor Battlehammer 5 decks
6 General Ferrous Rokiric 5 decks
7 Aragorn, the Uniter 4 decks
8 Cadric, Soul Kindler 4 decks
9 Vihaan, Goldwaker 4 decks
10 Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER 3 decks

Card text

Thorin Oakenshield

Legendary Creature — Dwarf Noble

Trample Storied (If you control three or more artifacts, legendaries, and/or Sagas, you have an enduring story for the rest of the game.) As long as you have an enduring story, artifacts and creatures you control have ward {1}

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The Hobbit (HOB) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Francisco Miyara

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.