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Troll of Khazad-dûm

· Creature — Troll · The Hobbit Eternal (HOC)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

244

Decks Running

120

In Decks

897

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Troll of Khazad-dûm

Creature — Troll

This creature can't be blocked except by three or more creatures. Swampcycling {1}

(

, Discard this card: Search your library for a Swamp card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

6 / 5

The Hobbit Eternal (HOC) · Common · Illustrated by Simon Dominic

Final zone distribution

68 instances

4.4%

Library

14.7%

Battlefield

47.1%

Graveyard

17.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sauron, Lord of the Rings 41 decks
2 Sauron, the Dark Lord 12 decks
3 Norman Osborn // Green Goblin 4 decks
4 Golbez, Crystal Collector 3 decks
5 Marvo, Deep Operative 3 decks
6 Zoyowa Lava-Tongue 3 decks
7 Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar 2 decks
8 Bladewing, Deathless Tyrant 2 decks
9 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 2 decks
10 Rankle, Master of Pranks 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

244 brought · 114 players

Brought to game

244

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 33% 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.

≥ -9.0pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=28) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=160).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 39% (n=21) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +6.4pp; 95% confidence interval -9.0pp to +21.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=30

13%

10%

13%

47%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 11

On curve 70% (6 / 30 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 46%

30 of 100 times cast 30%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.