Live Play Data

Goblin Lackey

· Creature — Goblin · Vintage Masters (VMA)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

631

Decks Running

308

Median Cast Turn

3.0

Drawn → Played

87%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=128

32%

16%

23%

T6-9

T10+

Median 3.0 P25 1 · P75 6 · max 14

On curve 32% (41 / 128 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 75%

The "good card" funnel

631 brought · 293 players

Brought to game

631

Ever drawn

147

Reached battlefield

128

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 42% 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.

≥ -15.3pp

Players who cast this card win 23% of the time (n=116) , vs 30% when it never left the library (n=432).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 22% (n=17).

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 -7.3pp; 95% confidence interval -15.3pp to +0.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

163 instances

6.1%

Library

33.1%

Battlefield

41.7%

Graveyard

8.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Krenko, Mob Boss 169 decks
2 Zada, Hedron Grinder 70 decks
3 The Great Goblin 12 decks
4 Muxus, Goblin Grandee 11 decks
5 Wort, Boggart Auntie 5 decks
6 Bolg, Erebor's Reckoning 4 decks
7 General Kreat, the Boltbringer 4 decks
8 Grub, Storied Matriarch // Grub, Notorious Auntie 4 decks
9 Ingris Stingerquill 4 decks
10 Purphoros, God of the Forge 3 decks

Card text

Goblin Lackey

Creature — Goblin

Whenever this creature deals damage to a player, you may put a Goblin permanent card from your hand onto the battlefield.

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Vintage Masters (VMA) · Rare · Illustrated by Christopher Moeller

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 780,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.