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Gandalf, Goblins' Bane // Flameshape

{2} {R} {1} {R} · Legendary Creature — Avatar Wizard // Sorcery — Adventure · The Hobbit (HOB)
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Times Brought
231
Decks Running
128
In Decks
—
Decklist Inclusion
—
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

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

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Gandalf, Goblins' Bane // Flameshape card

Gandalf, Goblins' Bane

{2} {R}
Legendary Creature — Avatar Wizard
Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, Gandalf gets +1/+1 until end of turn and deals 1 damage to each opponent.
2 / 3

Flameshape

{1} {R}
Sorcery — Adventure
Look at the top two cards of your library and exile them face down. For as long as they remain exiled, you may play them if you control a Wizard.
The Hobbit (HOB) · Mythic · Illustrated by Francisco Miyara

Final zone distribution

49 instances
2.0%
Library
44.9%
Battlefield
10.2%
Graveyard
18.4%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

231 brought · 120 players
Brought to game
231
Ever drawn
47
Reached battlefield
35
Still on board at game end
22

Once cast, 63% 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.

≥ +1.5pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=26) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=113).

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 +11.6pp; 95% confidence interval +1.5pp to +21.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=40
18%
T1
18%
T2
18%
T3
15%
T4
3%
T5
25%
T6-9
5%
T10+
Median 3.0 P25 2 · P75 6 · max 13
On curve 53% (7 / 40 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 52%

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.