Live Play Data

Gilded Goose

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1995

Decks Running

853

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

80%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=365

21%

11%

30%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 5 P25 2 · P75 7 · max 18

On curve 21% (77 / 365 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 63%

The "good card" funnel

1996 brought · 846 players

Brought to game

1996

Ever drawn

458

Reached battlefield

365

Still on board at game end

155

Once cast, 42% 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.

≥ -1.7pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=331) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=1291).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 38% (n=85).

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 +3.2pp; 95% confidence interval -1.7pp to +8.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

497 instances

1.6%

Library

31.2%

Battlefield

45.7%

Graveyard

6.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Dina, Essence Brewer 116 decks
2 Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit 107 decks
3 Hazel of the Rootbloom 84 decks
4 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 83 decks
5 Ygra, Eater of All 65 decks
6 Sam, Loyal Attendant 43 decks
7 Baylen, the Haymaker 40 decks
8 Choco, Seeker of Paradise 35 decks
9 Rocco, Street Chef 28 decks
10 Brenard, Ginger Sculptor 22 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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.