Live Play Data

Wake the Dragon

· Sorcery · Tales of Middle-earth Commander (LTC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

134

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

59%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=23

13%

17%

48%

T6-9

22%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 43% (3 / 23 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 15%

The "good card" funnel

134 brought · 65 players

Brought to game

134

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -16.3pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=21) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=74).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 34% (n=16).

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 +3.1pp; 95% confidence interval -16.3pp to +22.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

45 instances

2.2%

Battlefield

66.7%

Graveyard

11.1%

Exile

20.0%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Wake the Dragon

Sorcery

Create a 6/6 black and red Dragon creature token with flying, menace, and "Whenever this token deals combat damage to a player, gain control of target artifact that player controls." Flashback {6}

(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Tales of Middle-earth Commander (LTC) · Rare · Illustrated by Henry Peters

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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.