Live Play Data

Goblin Lackey

· Creature — Goblin · Vintage Masters (VMA)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

265

Decks Running

142

Median Cast Turn

3.5

Drawn → Played

90%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=52

33%

10%

27%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 3.5 P25 1 · P75 7 · max 14

On curve 33% (17 / 52 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 82%

The "good card" funnel

265 brought · 134 players

Brought to game

265

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 52% 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.

≥ -16.9pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=42) , vs 33% when it never left the library (n=170).

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 -3.0pp; 95% confidence interval -16.9pp to +10.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

60 instances

6.7%

Library

45.0%

Battlefield

33.3%

Graveyard

5.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Krenko, Mob Boss 73 decks
2 Zada, Hedron Grinder 40 decks
3 The Great Goblin 4 decks
4 Wort, Boggart Auntie 4 decks
5 Muxus, Goblin Grandee 3 decks
6 Bolg, Erebor's Reckoning 2 decks
7 Grenzo, Dungeon Warden 2 decks
8 Grub, Storied Matriarch // Grub, Notorious Auntie 2 decks
9 Mishra, Claimed by Gix 2 decks
10 Bolg of the North 1 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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.