Goblin Matron card art
Live Play Data

Goblin Matron

{2} {R} · Creature — Goblin · The List (PLST)
2%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
514
Decks Running
275
Median Cast Turn
5.0
Drawn → Played
81%
Format

First-cast turn

n=88
0%
T1
10%
T2
20%
T3
15%
T4
15%
T5
34%
T6-9
6%
T10+
Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 15
On curve 31% (18 / 88 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 28%

The "good card" funnel

514 brought · 255 players
Brought to game
514
Ever drawn
108
Reached battlefield
88
Still on board at game end
42

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.

≥ -8.6pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=81) , vs 30% when it never left the library (n=340).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 19% (n=16).

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 +1.4pp; 95% confidence interval -8.6pp to +11.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

117 instances
4.3%
Library
35.9%
Battlefield
35.9%
Graveyard
6.8%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Goblin Matron card

Goblin Matron

{2} {R}
Creature — Goblin
When this creature enters, you may search your library for a Goblin card, reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
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The List (PLST) · Common · Illustrated by Jesper Ejsing

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 670,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.