Live Play Data

War of the Last Alliance

· Enchantment — Saga · The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

411

Decks Running

214

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

61%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=59

19%

15%

44%

T6-9

15%

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 9 · max 14

On curve 25% (11 / 59 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 24%

The "good card" funnel

412 brought · 194 players

Brought to game

412

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 44% 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.

≥ +5.0pp

Players who cast this card win 36% of the time (n=54) , vs 19% when it never left the library (n=267).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (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 +17.3pp; 95% confidence interval +5.0pp to +29.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

112 instances

2.7%

Library

23.2%

Battlefield

40.2%

Graveyard

4.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Tom Bombadil 51 decks
2 Aragorn, the Uniter 11 decks
3 Éowyn, Shieldmaiden 11 decks
4 Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit 9 decks
5 Narci, Fable Singer 9 decks
6 Frodo, Sauron's Bane 6 decks
7 Thorin, King of Durin's Folk 6 decks
8 Bruna, the Fading Light 5 decks
9 Dáin of the Ancient Halls 5 decks
10 Serah Farron // Crystallized Serah 5 decks

Card text

War of the Last Alliance

Enchantment — Saga

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.) I, II — Search your library for a legendary creature card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. III — Creatures you control gain double strike until end of turn. The Ring tempts you.

The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR) · Rare · Illustrated by Alexander Forssberg

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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.