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Goblin Engineer

· Creature — Goblin Artificer · Modern Horizons (MH1)

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Times Brought

616

Decks Running

310

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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

130 instances

3.8%

Library

33.8%

Battlefield

31.5%

Graveyard

4.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Krenko, Mob Boss 49 decks
2 Zndrsplt, Eye of Wisdom 26 decks
3 Toph, the First Metalbender 16 decks
4 Jaws, Relentless Predator 12 decks
5 Okaun, Eye of Chaos 11 decks
6 Ragost, Deft Gastronaut 11 decks
7 Yusri, Fortune's Flame 10 decks
8 Breya, Etherium Shaper 9 decks
9 Norin the Wary 9 decks
10 Tony Stark // The Invincible Iron Man 9 decks

The "good card" funnel

617 brought · 303 players

Brought to game

617

Ever drawn

118

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 53% 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.

≥ -1.8pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=69) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=332).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 30% (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 +4.6pp; 95% confidence interval -1.8pp to +11.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=83

18%

12%

19%

13%

25%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 2 · P75 6 · max 14

On curve 27% (15 / 83 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 35%

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 710,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.