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Tidings of War

· Sorcery · The Hobbit (HOB)

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Times Brought

135

Decks Running

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

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

Final zone distribution

27 instances

51.9%

Graveyard

33.3%

Exile

14.8%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 The Great Goblin 28 decks
2 Sauron, the Dark Lord 14 decks
3 Krenko, Mob Boss 9 decks
4 Saruman, the White Hand 6 decks
5 Bolg of the North 3 decks
6 Sauron, Lord of the Rings 3 decks
7 Mauhúr, Uruk-hai Captain 2 decks
8 Smaug the Impenetrable 2 decks
9 Gandalf, Goblins' Bane // Flameshape 1 decks
10 General Kreat, the Boltbringer 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

135 brought · 72 players

Brought to game

135

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -10.3pp

Players who cast this card win 20% of the time (n=20) , vs 18% when it never left the library (n=83).

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 +1.9pp; 95% confidence interval -10.3pp to +14.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=22

27%

14%

36%

T6-9

T10+

Median 3.5 P25 1 · P75 7 · max 11

On curve 27% (6 / 22 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 50%

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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.