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Witch-king of Angmar

· Legendary Creature — Wraith Noble · The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

251

Decks Running

129

In Decks

861

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Witch-king of Angmar

Legendary Creature — Wraith Noble

Flying Whenever one or more creatures deal combat damage to you, each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice that dealt combat damage to you this turn. The Ring tempts you. Discard a card: Witch-king of Angmar gains indestructible until end of turn. Tap him.

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The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR) · Mythic · Illustrated by Anato Finnstark

Final zone distribution

86 instances

3.5%

Library

43.0%

Battlefield

29.1%

Graveyard

9.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sauron, the Dark Lord 64 decks
2 Lord of the Nazgûl 16 decks
3 Sméagol, Helpful Guide 10 decks
4 Sauron, Lord of the Rings 9 decks
5 Frodo, Sauron's Bane 3 decks
6 Witch-king of Angmar 3 decks
7 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice 2 decks
8 Hashaton, Scarab's Fist 2 decks
9 Sauron, the Necromancer 2 decks
10 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

252 brought · 119 players

Brought to game

252

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 69% 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.

≥ -2.0pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=48) , vs 18% when it never left the library (n=145).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 21% (n=21) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +11.2pp; 95% confidence interval -2.0pp to +24.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=51

10%

16%

65%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 12

On curve 25% (8 / 51 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 38%

51 of 100 times cast 51%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.