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Live Play Data

Goblin Archaeologist

{1} {R} · Creature — Goblin Artificer · Darksteel (DST)
0%
Live Inclusion
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Times Brought
276
Decks Running
90
Median Cast Turn
5.0
Drawn → Played
59%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=48
8%
T1
21%
T2
8%
T3
10%
T4
10%
T5
35%
T6-9
6%
T10+
Median 5.0 P25 2 · P75 7 · max 11
On curve 29% (10 / 48 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 40%

The "good card" funnel

276 brought · 132 players
Brought to game
276
Ever drawn
82
Reached battlefield
48
Still on board at game end
14

Once cast, 29% 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.

≥ -2.0pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=46) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=156).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 46% (n=32).

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 +11.7pp; 95% confidence interval -2.0pp to +25.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

89 instances
2.2%
Library
15.7%
Battlefield
48.3%
Graveyard
6.7%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Goblin Archaeologist card

Goblin Archaeologist

{1} {R}
Creature — Goblin Artificer
{R}, {T}: Flip a coin. If you win the flip, destroy target artifact and untap this creature. If you lose the flip, sacrifice this creature.
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Darksteel (DST) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Jim Nelson

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 750,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.