Live Play Data

Goblin Engineer

· Creature — Goblin Artificer · Modern Horizons (MH1)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1366

Decks Running

606

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

64%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=205

16%

12%

16%

13%

32%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 17

On curve 21% (32 / 205 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 40%

The "good card" funnel

1366 brought · 566 players

Brought to game

1366

Ever drawn

320

Reached battlefield

205

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.

≥ +1.3pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=183) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=897).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 37% (n=106).

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 +8.2pp; 95% confidence interval +1.3pp to +15.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

349 instances

5.7%

Library

28.4%

Battlefield

36.4%

Graveyard

5.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Goblin Engineer

Creature — Goblin Artificer

When this creature enters, you may search your library for an artifact card, put it into your graveyard, then shuffle. {R}

, Sacrifice an artifact: Return target artifact card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

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Modern Horizons (MH1) · Rare · Illustrated by Jehan Choo

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.