Live Play Data

Goblin Chainwhirler

· Creature — Goblin Warrior · Dominaria (DOM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

243

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

58%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=34

24%

21%

41%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 11

On curve 26% (8 / 34 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 39%

The "good card" funnel

243 brought · 85 players

Brought to game

243

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 41% 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.

≥ -18.7pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=28) , vs 29% when it never left the library (n=152).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 24% (n=20).

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 -2.3pp; 95% confidence interval -18.7pp to +14.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

64 instances

4.7%

Library

21.9%

Battlefield

39.1%

Graveyard

6.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Krenko, Mob Boss 25 decks
2 Ghyrson Starn, Kelermorph 15 decks
3 Clive, Ifrit's Dominant // Ifrit, Warden of Inferno 12 decks
4 Delina, Wild Mage 8 decks
5 Torbran, Thane of Red Fell 6 decks
6 Muxus, Goblin Grandee 3 decks
7 General Kreat, the Boltbringer 2 decks
8 Gornog, the Red Reaper 2 decks
9 Absorbing Man and Titania 1 decks
10 Anzrag, the Quake-Mole 1 decks

Card text

Goblin Chainwhirler

Creature — Goblin Warrior

First strike When this creature enters, it deals 1 damage to each opponent and each creature and planeswalker they control.

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Dominaria (DOM) · Rare · Illustrated by Svetlin Velinov

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 subset of that corpus.