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Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog card art
Live Play Data

Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog

Creature — Goblin // Land · Modern Horizons 3 (MH3)
4%
Live Inclusion
Buy on TCGplayer
Times Brought
797
Decks Running
403
Median Cast Turn
5
Drawn → Played
63%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

4% of tracked Commander decks run Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog. When drawn, 63% of copies are cast, with a median first-cast turn of 5.

Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog is a black-identity modal double-faced card from Modern Horizons 3, played in 403 of the 10261 distinct decks tracked on Playgroup Live. Its inclusion rate of 4% reflects a role that's niche but deliberate: players who sleeve it tend to have a specific plan for either the Goblin creature side or the land back face.

Of 200 drawn copies across 772 tracked games, 63% reached the battlefield as a cast spell. Median first cast lands on turn 5, which is late enough that the land back can matter in opening hands. Once it resolves, 72% of cast copies remain on the battlefield at game's end, a solid stickiness figure for a 3-mana creature that doubles as a land.

The commander spread is notably wide. 332 distinct players have brought this card to tracked games, and no single player accounts for more than a small slice of the data. Early signal from Playgroup Live places it most often alongside Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER and Betor, Ancestor's Voice, suggesting it earns its slot in black-heavy lists that want both a mana-flexible early play and late-game goblin synergy.

At a glance
  • 4% of tracked Commander decks include this card
  • 63% of drawn copies are cast before the game ends
  • T5 median first-cast turn across tracked games
  • 72% battlefield stickiness once the creature side resolves
  • 332 distinct players have brought it to a tracked game, a well-spread sample
  • 41% normalized win rate in games where this card was cast

First-cast turn

n=125
13%
T1
6%
T2
14%
T3
12%
T4
10%
T5
37%
T6-9
8%
T10+
Median 5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 17
On curve 34% (18 / 125 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 44%

The "good card" funnel

798 brought · 332 players
Brought to game
798
Ever drawn
200
Reached battlefield
125
Still on board at game end
90
63%

Of 798 copies brought to games, 200 were drawn, 125 of those were cast, and 72% of cast copies remained on the battlefield at game's end.

≥ +4.3pp

Players who cast this card win 41% of the time (n=115) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=499).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=68) — 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 +13.4pp; 95% confidence interval +4.3pp to +22.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

232 instances
2.2%
Library
38.8%
Battlefield
28.4%
Graveyard
6.9%
Exile

Most Boggart Trawler copies finish the game on the battlefield or in the graveyard, with very few stranded in the library. That's a sharply different profile from most 100-card singleton cards, reflecting how often the land back face allows early deployment.

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The commander list is spread across at least ten distinct archetypes, from mono-black control to Goblin tribal to Ninja tempo, with no single commander dominating the data. That breadth suggests the card earns its slot in multiple distinct strategies.

Card text
Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog card Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog back face

Boggart Trawler

{2} {B}
Creature — Goblin
When this creature enters, exile target player's graveyard.
3 / 1

Boggart Bog

Land
As this land enters, you may pay 3 life. If you don't, it enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}.
Modern Horizons 3 (MH3) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Randy Gallegos

Frequently Asked

How often is Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog drawn in a Commander game?
Across 772 tracked games where the card was in the deck, it was drawn 25% of the time. That's in line with what you'd expect from a singleton in a 100-card deck. Of 200 copies that reached a player's hand, 63% were cast before the game ended. The remainder were largely games that ended before the player found a window to play it.
What turn does Boggart Trawler typically get cast?
Median first-cast turn is 5, with the distribution spreading from turn 1 through the mid-game and a long tail into double digits. The card has a mana value of 3, but the modal back face means opening-hand copies can enter play earlier as a land. Players who do cast the creature side hold it in hand for a median of 1 turn before playing it, per the hand-to-cast data.
Is Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog legal in Commander?
Yes. The card is legal in Commander, Duel Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Historic, Timeless, Gladiator, Oathbreaker, and Brawl. It is not legal in Standard, Pioneer, Pauper, Pauper Commander, or Premodern. No active bans affect it in any of its legal formats as of the set's release in Modern Horizons 3.
Does casting this card correlate with winning?
In 115 participations where the card was cast, the normalized win rate is 41%, compared to 28% in participations where it stayed in the library. That's a +13.4 percentage-point directional lift. Both sample sizes are meaningful, but treat this as an early signal rather than a definitive conclusion. Deck quality and archetype almost certainly account for part of the gap.
Which commanders most often run Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog?
Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER leads the multiplayer data with the highest deck count among tracked commanders, followed by Betor, Ancestor's Voice and The Great Goblin. The spread across commanders is broad: 332 unique players have brought the card to tracked games, and the single heaviest contributor accounts for only 25% of the dataset. The commander list skews toward black-heavy and Goblin-tribal strategies, which fits the card's creature type and color identity.
Is the Boggart Bog land back face relevant in Commander?
Commander is a singleton format where mana consistency matters, and a MDFC that enters untapped as a basic-type land has real value in the early game. The median first-cast turn of 5 suggests players most often cast the creature side mid-game rather than using the land face, but the land option provides a safety valve in land-light opening hands. The broad inclusion across non-Goblin commanders like Y'shtola and Yuriko supports this dual utility.