Live Play Data

Gilded Goose

· Creature — Bird · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

731

Decks Running

323

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

85%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=147

22%

12%

14%

10%

29%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 2 · P75 7 · max 18

On curve 22% (32 / 147 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 66%

The "good card" funnel

732 brought · 339 players

Brought to game

732

Ever drawn

172

Reached battlefield

147

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 39% 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.

≥ -0.4pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=136) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=469).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 39% (n=23).

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 +7.7pp; 95% confidence interval -0.4pp to +15.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

184 instances

1.6%

Library

31.5%

Battlefield

48.4%

Graveyard

6.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Dina, Essence Brewer 57 decks
2 Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit 46 decks
3 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 35 decks
4 Hazel of the Rootbloom 33 decks
5 Ygra, Eater of All 31 decks
6 Baylen, the Haymaker 16 decks
7 Choco, Seeker of Paradise 13 decks
8 Camellia, the Seedmiser 10 decks
9 Rocco, Street Chef 10 decks
10 Sam, Loyal Attendant 10 decks

Card text

Gilded Goose

Creature — Bird

Flying When this creature enters, create a Food token. (It's an artifact with " {2}

, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.") {1}

: Create a Food token. {T}

, Sacrifice a Food: Add one mana of any color.

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Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) · Rare · Illustrated by Lindsey Look

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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.