Live Play Data

Tom, Bert, and William

· Legendary Creature — Troll · The Hobbit (HOB)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

268

Decks Running

104

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

65%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=107

27%

18%

42%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 12

On curve 52% (19 / 107 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 30%

The "good card" funnel

268 brought · 101 players

Brought to game

268

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

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.

≥ +17.7pp

Players who cast this card win 58% of the time (n=53) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=153).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 30% (n=24).

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 +31.7pp; 95% confidence interval +17.7pp to +45.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

89 instances

1.1%

Library

43.8%

Battlefield

16.9%

Graveyard

9.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 The Muckslinger Gang 24 decks
2 Henzie "Toolbox" Torre 14 decks
3 Dina, Essence Brewer 7 decks
4 Meren of Clan Nel Toth 6 decks
5 Uugguu, the Omniplasm 6 decks
6 Blech, Loafing Pest 5 decks
7 Eddie Brock // Venom, Lethal Protector 4 decks
8 Sméagol, Helpful Guide 4 decks
9 Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord 2 decks
10 Jenova, Ancient Calamity 2 decks

Card text

Tom, Bert, and William

Legendary Creature — Troll

, Sacrifice another creature: Draw cards equal to the sacrificed creature's power, then discard a card. When Tom, Bert, and William die, if they were a creature, return them to the battlefield. They're an artifact. (They're no longer a creature.)

5 / 5

The Hobbit (HOB) · Rare · Illustrated by Leonardo Borazio

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.