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The Battle of Bywater LTR 0002 · rare

The Battle of Bywater · {1}{W}{W} · Sorcery · Destroy all creatures with power 3 or greater. Then create a Food token for each creature you control. (It's an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.") · The Tooks marched in with Pippin at their head. Merry now had enough sturdy Hobbitry to deal with the ruffians.

The Battle of Bywater · {1}{W}{W} · Sorcery · Destroy all creatures with power 3 or greater. Then create a Food token for each creature you control. (It's an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.") · The Tooks marched in with Pippin at their head. Merry now had enough sturdy Hobbitry to deal with the ruffians.

Price
from $2.345 printings
Win rate
56.5% GIH 9,558 instances · Premier Draft
Jun 15–Aug 28, 2023 · 17Lands

Game-in-hand win rate, all deck colors. 5,399 wins in 9,558 card-in-hand instances.

9,426 distinct games · 3,473 distinct drafts · games recorded Jun 15–Aug 28, 2023.

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

Draft data

56.5%when drawn (GIH)

+0.9 pp vs 55.6% average · 9,558 instances

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

#98 of 251 nonland cards by win rate · last seen around pick 2.9 on average (20,160 packs).

11 of 38 white cards · 5 of 6 white rare cards.

Taken at pick3.35,166 picks
Makes the deck66.9%5,166 picks with known usage
When played54.3%17,801.4 matchesBenched 54.7%
7,481.6 matches
When drawn56.5%9,558 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 54.3% · 3,739 instances
● Drawn later 57.9% · 5,819 instances

In hand 56.5% · 9,558 instances
Unseen in deck 52.9% · 12,250 instances
+3.6 percentage points when drawn

Compared with white cards

Win rate when drawn56.5%9,558 instances11 of 38
Opening hand54.3%3,739 instances16 of 37
Drawn later57.9%5,819 instances9 of 37
In the deck54.5%21,805 instances19 of 38
Without seeing it52.9%12,250 instances24 of 38
Improvement when drawn+3.6 pp9,558 instances / 12,250 instances9 of 38
When benched54.7%7,481.6 matches33 of 38
Makes the deck66.9%5,166 picks with known usage16 of 38
Pick (last seen)2.920,160 packs9 of 38
Taken at3.35,166 picks8 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

White–Black WB59.7%2,551 instancesRed–White RW56.7%1,918 instancesWhite–Blue WU55.1%1,073 instancesGreen–White GW54.2%950 instances

Each tick is this card’s all-decks rate (56.5% · 9,558 instances). A high card rate does not prove that splashing it will improve your deck.

Best with

Adjusted associations, ranked by confidence.

Bill the Pony+5.6 pp5,636 games with both in the deck · 1,219 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 61% 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

5 printingsScryfall USD, snapshot Oct 25Pack odds →

Pick a printing for its prices and pull odds.

Prices

LTR 0002 · Regular printingListings ↗
FinishFound inPrice
Nonfoildraft · set · jumpstart · jumpstart-v2$2.34
FoilCollector Booster · draft · set$4.33

Foil in a draft · Modeled · About 1 in 1,715 packs (0.06%) · 2.1% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Nonfoil in a draft · Modeled · About 1 in 86 packs (1.17%) · 34.4% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Foil in a set · Modeled · About 1 in 645 packs (0.15%) · 4.5% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Nonfoil in a set · Modeled · About 1 in 59 packs (1.68%) · 39.9% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Foil in a Collector Booster · Modeled · About 1 in 70 packs (1.43%) · 15.9% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Nonfoil in a jumpstart · Modeled · About 1 in 35 packs (2.86%) · 40.7% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Nonfoil in a jumpstart-v2 · Modeled · About 1 in 38 packs (2.67%) · 38.5% 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 BoosterCommon or foil33%Main set and booster-fun foils
Draft BoosterRare or mythic rareRegular cards in this group; no separate share publishedDraft and Set Booster rare printings
Set BoosterTen other Magic cards100%Other Draft and Set Booster printings
Set BoosterGuaranteed rare or mythicRegular cards in this group; no separate share publishedDraft and Set Booster rare printings
Set BoosterGuaranteed traditional foil100%Main set and booster-fun foils
Collector BoosterFoil main-set rare or mythic85.7%Main set · rare

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

Details & sources

Legal in
Historic · Timeless · Modern · Legacy · Vintage · CommanderLimited eligibility depends on the event and its booster pool.
Illustration
Tomas Duchek, LTR 2 · 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 ↗