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Goblin Engineer

· Creature — Goblin Artificer · Modern Horizons (MH1)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

396

Decks Running

194

In Decks

1517

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

Final zone distribution

98 instances

9.2%

Library

30.6%

Battlefield

35.7%

Graveyard

7.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Krenko, Mob Boss 21 decks
2 Jaws, Relentless Predator 13 decks
3 Ragost, Deft Gastronaut 13 decks
4 Zndrsplt, Eye of Wisdom 13 decks
5 Norin the Wary 9 decks
6 Toph, the First Metalbender 9 decks
7 Tony Stark // The Invincible Iron Man 7 decks
8 Iron Man, Titan of Innovation 5 decks
9 Okaun, Eye of Chaos 5 decks
10 Breya, Etherium Shaper 4 decks

The "good card" funnel

396 brought · 195 players

Brought to game

396

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 54% 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.

≥ -5.0pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=51) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=265).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 35% (n=28) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +7.4pp; 95% confidence interval -5.0pp to +19.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=56

16%

13%

16%

27%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 11

On curve 20% (9 / 56 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 37%

56 of 100 times cast 56%

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

Frequently Asked

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.

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 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.