Live Play Data

Troll of Khazad-dûm

· Creature — Troll · The Hobbit Eternal (HOC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

464

Decks Running

226

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

62%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=65

11%

25%

37%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 13

On curve 72% (9 / 65 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 36%

The "good card" funnel

464 brought · 217 players

Brought to game

464

Ever drawn

105

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 37% 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.

≥ -7.0pp

Players who cast this card win 22% of the time (n=59) , vs 19% when it never left the library (n=294).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 32% (n=37).

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 +3.5pp; 95% confidence interval -7.0pp to +14.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

132 instances

2.3%

Library

18.2%

Battlefield

50.8%

Graveyard

14.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sauron, Lord of the Rings 67 decks
2 Sauron, the Dark Lord 31 decks
3 Norman Osborn // Green Goblin 6 decks
4 Golbez, Crystal Collector 5 decks
5 Xu-Ifit, Osteoharmonist 5 decks
6 Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar 4 decks
7 Saruman, the White Hand 4 decks
8 Shilgengar, Sire of Famine 4 decks
9 Bladewing, Deathless Tyrant 3 decks
10 Coram, the Undertaker 3 decks

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.)

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

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 710,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.