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

520

Decks Running

263

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

61%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=73

10%

21%

44%

T6-9

22%

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 14

On curve 14% (7 / 73 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 24%

The "good card" funnel

521 brought · 241 players

Brought to game

521

Ever drawn

119

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.

≥ +7.2pp

Players who cast this card win 39% of the time (n=68) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=336).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=42).

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 +18.1pp; 95% confidence interval +7.2pp to +29.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

137 instances

2.2%

Library

23.4%

Battlefield

42.3%

Graveyard

4.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Tom Bombadil 59 decks
2 Aragorn, the Uniter 12 decks
3 Éowyn, Shieldmaiden 12 decks
4 Frodo, Sauron's Bane 11 decks
5 Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit 10 decks
6 Narci, Fable Singer 10 decks
7 Serah Farron // Crystallized Serah 7 decks
8 Thorin, King of Durin's Folk 7 decks
9 Bruna, the Fading Light 6 decks
10 Dáin of the Ancient Halls 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 780,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.