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Goblin Chirurgeon

{R} · Creature — Goblin Shaman · Masters Edition (ME1)
1%
Decklist Inclusion
Times Brought
227
Decks Running
109
In Decks
696
Decklist Inclusion
1%
Format
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Goblin Chirurgeon card

Goblin Chirurgeon

{R}
Creature — Goblin Shaman
Sacrifice a Goblin: Regenerate target creature.
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Masters Edition (ME1) · Common · Illustrated by Dan Frazier

Final zone distribution

63 instances
7.9%
Library
33.3%
Battlefield
34.9%
Graveyard
7.9%
Exile

The "good card" funnel

227 brought · 103 players
Brought to game
227
Ever drawn
54
Reached battlefield
49
Still on board at game end
21

Once cast, 43% 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.

≥ -4.1pp

Players who cast this card win 39% of the time (n=46) , vs 29% when it never left the library (n=143).

Observed gap +10.0pp; 95% confidence interval -4.1pp to +24.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=49
16%
T1
4%
T2
8%
T3
8%
T4
20%
T5
39%
T6-9
4%
T10+
Median 5 P25 3 · P75 6 · max 12
On curve 16% (8 / 49 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 64%
49 of 100 times cast 49%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

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Why isn't there more data on this card?
Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). Until this card clears those bars you're seeing only the basic counts. Stats refresh nightly.
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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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.