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Beetleback Chief

· Creature — Goblin Warrior · Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC)

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Times Brought

315

Decks Running

169

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

Beetleback Chief

Creature — Goblin Warrior

When this creature enters, create two 1/1 red Goblin creature tokens.

2 / 2

Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Lorenzo Mastroianni

Final zone distribution

67 instances

1.5%

Library

38.8%

Battlefield

23.9%

Graveyard

3.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Krenko, Mob Boss 84 decks
2 Zurgo Stormrender 14 decks
3 Zada, Hedron Grinder 12 decks
4 Purphoros, God of the Forge 8 decks
5 Grenzo, Dungeon Warden 6 decks
6 Daretti, Scrap Savant 5 decks
7 The Great Goblin 5 decks
8 General Kreat, the Boltbringer 3 decks
9 Grub, Storied Matriarch // Grub, Notorious Auntie 2 decks
10 Gut, True Soul Zealot 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

315 brought · 162 players

Brought to game

315

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 59% 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.

≥ -8.8pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=34) , vs 29% when it never left the library (n=186).

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 +0.1pp; 95% confidence interval -8.8pp to +9.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=44

11%

23%

25%

41%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 4 · P75 6 · max 8

On curve 34% (10 / 44 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 34%

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.