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Thorin Oakenshield

{R} {W} · Legendary Creature — Dwarf Noble · The Hobbit (HOB)
Times Brought
380
Decks Running
169
In Decks
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Decklist Inclusion
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Format

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

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Thorin Oakenshield card

Thorin Oakenshield

{R} {W}
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

Final zone distribution

69 instances
4.3%
Library
56.5%
Battlefield
26.1%
Graveyard
13.0%
Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

380 brought · 152 players
Brought to game
380
Ever drawn
69
Reached battlefield
55
Still on board at game end
39

Once cast, 71% 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.

≥ -10.9pp

Players who cast this card win 20% of the time (n=43) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=241).

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 -2.8pp; 95% confidence interval -10.9pp to +5.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=71
0%
T1
24%
T2
11%
T3
15%
T4
10%
T5
31%
T6-9
8%
T10+
Median 4 P25 3 · P75 6 · max 12
On curve 24% (17 / 71 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 19%

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.