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Sam's Desperate Rescue LTR 0105 · common

Sam's Desperate Rescue · {B} · Sorcery · Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. The Ring tempts you. · "By all the signs, there's a large warrior loose, with an Elf-sword, and an axe as well maybe." Gorbag spat. Sam smiled grimly at this description of himself.

Sam's Desperate Rescue · {B} · Sorcery · Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. The Ring tempts you. · "By all the signs, there's a large warrior loose, with an Elf-sword, and an axe as well maybe." Gorbag spat. Sam smiled grimly at this description of himself.

Price
from $0.142 printings
Win rate
58.3% GIH 122,041 instances · Premier Draft
Jun 15–Aug 28, 2023 · 17Lands

Game-in-hand win rate, all deck colors. 71,157 wins in 122,041 card-in-hand instances.

113,841 distinct games · 38,105 distinct drafts · games recorded Jun 15–Aug 28, 2023.

17Lands file dated Aug 30, 2023 · 100-instance minimum · 17Lands public data ↗

Draft data

58.3%when drawn (GIH)

+2.7 pp vs 55.6% average · 122,041 instances

Premier Draft · Jun 15–Aug 28, 2023 · average from 980,485 games

#68 of 251 nonland cards by win rate · last seen around pick 5.3 on average (306,155 packs).

19 of 38 black cards · 9 of 19 black common cards.

Taken at pick7.362,135 picks
Makes the deck67.9%62,135 picks with known usage
When played57.2%227,587.9 matchesBenched 56.7%
88,125.1 matches
When drawn58.3%122,041 instances

Pick and maindeck observations: Jun 15–Aug 28, 2023. Played/benched cells use matches when available; the drawn cell uses game instances.

○ Opening hand 54.6% · 44,870 instances
● Drawn later 60.4% · 77,171 instances

In hand 58.3% · 122,041 instances
Unseen in deck 56.1% · 158,021 instances
+2.2 percentage points when drawn

Compared with black cards

Win rate when drawn58.3%122,041 instances19 of 38
Opening hand54.6%44,870 instances23 of 38
Drawn later60.4%77,171 instances12 of 38
In the deck57.1%280,289 instances17 of 38
Without seeing it56.1%158,021 instances6 of 38
Improvement when drawn+2.2 pp122,041 instances / 158,021 instances23 of 38
When benched56.7%88,125.1 matches8 of 38
Makes the deck67.9%62,135 picks with known usage27 of 38
Pick (last seen)5.3306,155 packs30 of 38
Taken at7.362,135 picks30 of 38

Ranks require 100 observations for that metric; comparisons are descriptive, not a pick order. Pick ranks put earlier picks first.

Best decks for it

no-splash decks only · card-level in-hand rates · 100 minimum

Black–Red BR59.7%37,298 instancesBlue–Black UB59.6%20,051 instancesWhite–Black WB59.0%19,389 instancesBlack–Green BG58.2%6,648 instances

Each tick is this card’s all-decks rate (58.3% · 122,041 instances). A high card rate does not prove that splashing it will improve your deck.

Best with

Adjusted associations, ranked by confidence.

Call of the Ring+5.8 pp16,479 games with both in the deck · 3,836 both drawnNazgûl+2.8 pp54,938 games with both in the deck · 13,370 both drawnErebor Flamesmith+3.8 pp21,588 games with both in the deck · 5,096 both drawn
How to read this

Observational, not a causal bonus. Both cards must be in the deck. Drawn means opening hand or normally drawn; each card counts once per game. Game-level approximate intervals do not account for repeated games by the same drafter.

At least 100 games in each of four drawn/not-drawn groups; adjusted for game length and screened by the lower confidence bound. Do not add these points to a card’s win rate.

Where it sits in the set

Above 73% of 251 nonland cards with 100+ instances, in win-rate order.

30% or lowerWin rate94% or higher

17Lands public datasets ↗ · CC BY 4.0 ↗ · Jun 15–Aug 28, 2023

Collect

2 printingsScryfall USD, snapshot Oct 25Pack odds →

Pick a printing for its prices and pull odds.

Prices

LTR 0105 · Regular printingListings ↗
FinishFound inPrice
Nonfoildraft · set · jumpstart-v2$0.14
FoilCollector Booster · draft · set$0.26

Foil in a draft · Modeled · About 1 in 675 packs (0.15%) · 5.2% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Nonfoil in a draft · Modeled · About 1 in 11 packs (9.20%) · 96.9% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Foil in a set · Modeled · About 1 in 225 packs (0.44%) · 12.5% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Nonfoil in a set · Modeled · About 1 in 23 packs (4.26%) · 72.9% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Foil in a Collector Booster · Modeled · About 1 in 25 packs (3.95%) · 38.4% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Nonfoil in a jumpstart-v2 · Modeled · About 1 in 10 packs (10.00%) · 85.0% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

How to pull it

Official rates for the whole category, not this card.

BoosterSlotPer packCategory
Draft BoosterCommons100% per positionDraft and Set Booster common printings
Draft BoosterCommon or foil67%Draft and Set Booster common printings
Draft BoosterCommon or foil33%Main set and booster-fun foils
Set BoosterTen other Magic cards100%Other Draft and Set Booster printings
Set BoosterGuaranteed traditional foil100%Main set and booster-fun foils
Collector BoosterFoil commons100% per positionMain set · common
Collector BoosterFoil common or rare Sol Ring treatmentRegular cards in this group; no separate share publishedMain set · common

Mike Turian and Adam Styborski · Collecting LOTR ↗ · Sep 22, 2023

Details & sources

Legal in
Historic · Timeless · Modern · Legacy · Pauper · Vintage · CommanderLimited eligibility depends on the event and its booster pool.
Illustration
Lixin Yin, LTR 105 · Scryfall ↗
More like this
Regular printing printings →
Sources
Mike Turian and Adam Styborski · Collecting LOTR · Sep 22, 2023
Scryfall USD, snapshot Oct 25
Comprehensive Rules ↗