Live Play Data

Bothersome Noisemaker

· Creature — Goblin Bard · The Hobbit (HOB)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

221

Decks Running

115

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

81%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=43

23%

44%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 2 · P75 7 · max 11

On curve 28% (10 / 43 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 53%

The "good card" funnel

221 brought · 108 players

Brought to game

221

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 51% 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.

≥ -6.9pp

Players who cast this card win 23% of the time (n=39) , vs 16% when it never left the library (n=134).

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 +7.0pp; 95% confidence interval -6.9pp to +20.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

58 instances

3.4%

Library

37.9%

Battlefield

41.4%

Graveyard

10.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Bothersome Noisemaker

Creature — Goblin Bard

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, amass Goblins 1. (Put a +1/+1 counter on an Army you control. It's also a Goblin. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Goblin Army creature token first.)

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The Hobbit (HOB) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Andreia Ugrai

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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.