Live Play Data

Troop of Ponies

· Creature — Horse · The Hobbit (HOB)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1282

Decks Running

501

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

73%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=251

32%

11%

12%

27%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 2 · P75 7 · max 16

On curve 35% (80 / 251 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 41%

The "good card" funnel

1282 brought · 403 players

Brought to game

1282

Ever drawn

346

Reached battlefield

251

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 18% 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.

≥ -1.2pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=223) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=775).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=82).

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 +5.1pp; 95% confidence interval -1.2pp to +11.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

383 instances

3.7%

Library

11.7%

Battlefield

61.1%

Graveyard

5.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Troop of Ponies

Creature — Horse

, Sacrifice this creature: Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal them, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

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The Hobbit (HOB) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Christina Kraus

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.