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Goblin Lackey

· Creature — Goblin · Vintage Masters (VMA)

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Times Brought

533

Decks Running

278

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 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

Final zone distribution

129 instances

6.2%

Library

38.0%

Battlefield

35.7%

Graveyard

5.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Krenko, Mob Boss 151 decks
2 Zada, Hedron Grinder 74 decks
3 The Great Goblin 12 decks
4 Bolg, Erebor's Reckoning 7 decks
5 Muxus, Goblin Grandee 6 decks
6 General Kreat, the Boltbringer 4 decks
7 Wort, Boggart Auntie 4 decks
8 Grenzo, Dungeon Warden 3 decks
9 Purphoros, God of the Forge 3 decks
10 Grub, Storied Matriarch // Grub, Notorious Auntie 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

533 brought · 262 players

Brought to game

533

Ever drawn

125

Reached battlefield

102

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 48% 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.

≥ -8.4pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=91) , vs 29% when it never left the library (n=356).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=18).

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 -2.7pp; 95% confidence interval -8.4pp to +3.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=102

36%

13%

12%

22%

T6-9

T10+

Median 3.0 P25 1 · P75 5 · max 14

On curve 36% (37 / 102 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 73%

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.