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Azog, Moria's Ruin

· Legendary Creature — Goblin Soldier · The Hobbit (HOB)

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Times Brought

168

Decks Running

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

Card text

Azog, Moria's Ruin

Legendary Creature — Goblin Soldier

When Azog enters, destroy up to one other target creature. Its controller amasses Goblins X, where X is that creature's power. If you controlled that creature, draw a card. (To amass Goblins X, that player puts X +1/+1 counters on an Army they control. It's also a Goblin. If they don't control an Army, they create a 0/0 black Goblin Army creature token first.)

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The Hobbit (HOB) · Rare · Illustrated by Miklós Ligeti

Final zone distribution

36 instances

33.3%

Battlefield

27.8%

Graveyard

2.8%

Exile

30.6%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 The Great Goblin 31 decks
2 Sauron, the Dark Lord 29 decks
3 Avacyn, Angel of Horror 3 decks
4 Sauron, Lord of the Rings 3 decks
5 Smaug, Wicked Worm 3 decks
6 Bolg of the North 2 decks
7 Grub, Storied Matriarch // Grub, Notorious Auntie 2 decks
8 Mauhúr, Uruk-hai Captain 2 decks
9 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 2 decks
10 Smaug the Impenetrable 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

170 brought · 94 players

Brought to game

170

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 57% 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.

≥ -14.6pp

Players who cast this card win 19% of the time (n=18) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=98).

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 -2.0pp; 95% confidence interval -14.6pp to +10.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=21

10%

19%

14%

43%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 18

On curve 14% (2 / 21 cast on T3)

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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.