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Live Play Data

Goblin Instigator

{1} {R} · Creature — Goblin Rogue · March of the Machine Commander (MOC)
1%
Live Inclusion
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Times Brought
554
Decks Running
239
Median Cast Turn
4.0
Drawn → Played
89%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=100
5%
T1
23%
T2
14%
T3
16%
T4
13%
T5
24%
T6-9
5%
T10+
Median 4.0 P25 2 · P75 6 · max 16
On curve 28% (23 / 100 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 41%

The "good card" funnel

554 brought · 228 players
Brought to game
554
Ever drawn
113
Reached battlefield
100
Still on board at game end
53

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.

≥ -9.0pp

Players who cast this card win 24% of the time (n=87) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=360).

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 +0.2pp; 95% confidence interval -9.0pp to +9.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

124 instances
4.8%
Library
42.7%
Battlefield
37.9%
Graveyard
4.0%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Goblin Instigator card

Goblin Instigator

{1} {R}
Creature — Goblin Rogue
When this creature enters, create a 1/1 red Goblin creature token.
1 / 1
March of the Machine Commander (MOC) · Common · Illustrated by Filip Burburan

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.