Live Play Data

Tidings of War

· Sorcery · The Hobbit (HOB)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

213

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

77%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=43

12%

16%

35%

T6-9

14%

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 8 · max 15

On curve 12% (5 / 43 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 57%

The "good card" funnel

213 brought · 90 players

Brought to game

213

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -8.1pp

Players who cast this card win 16% of the time (n=40) , vs 13% when it never left the library (n=126).

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 +3.1pp; 95% confidence interval -8.1pp to +14.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

62 instances

6.5%

Library

54.8%

Graveyard

27.4%

Exile

11.3%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Tidings of War

Sorcery

Amass Goblins 1. If this spell was cast from a graveyard, amass Goblins 3 instead. (To amass Goblins X, put X +1/+1 counters on an Army you control. It's also a Goblin. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Goblin Army creature token first.) Flashback {3}

(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

The Hobbit (HOB) · Common · Illustrated by Pavel Kolomeyets

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.