Live Play Data

Goblin Dark-Dwellers

· Creature — Goblin · Commander 2020 (C20)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

218

Decks Running

139

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

62%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=31

10%

48%

T6-9

32%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 10 · max 18

On curve 19% (2 / 31 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 32%

The "good card" funnel

218 brought · 134 players

Brought to game

218

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 48% 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.

≥ -17.3pp

Players who cast this card win 24% of the time (n=24) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=130).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=16).

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 -0.6pp; 95% confidence interval -17.3pp to +16.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

60 instances

1.7%

Library

25.0%

Battlefield

45.0%

Graveyard

10.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sauron, Lord of the Rings 55 decks
2 Zada, Hedron Grinder 43 decks
3 Krenko, Mob Boss 13 decks
4 Sauron, the Dark Lord 12 decks
5 Saruman, the White Hand 7 decks
6 Kalamax, the Stormsire 3 decks
7 Judith, Carnage Connoisseur 2 decks
8 Fin Fang Foom 1 decks
9 Grub, Storied Matriarch // Grub, Notorious Auntie 1 decks
10 Kratos, God of War 1 decks

Card text

Goblin Dark-Dwellers

Creature — Goblin

Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.) When this creature enters, you may cast target instant or sorcery card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead.

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Commander 2020 (C20) · Rare · Illustrated by Steven Belledin

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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.