Live Play Data

Goblin Matron

· Creature — Goblin · The List (PLST)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1345

Decks Running

616

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

82%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=214

20%

15%

40%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 16

On curve 24% (42 / 214 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 32%

The "good card" funnel

1345 brought · 558 players

Brought to game

1345

Ever drawn

262

Reached battlefield

214

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 45% 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.

≥ -7.4pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=192) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=900).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 24% (n=42).

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 -1.0pp; 95% confidence interval -7.4pp to +5.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

290 instances

4.5%

Library

33.4%

Battlefield

38.3%

Graveyard

8.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Krenko, Mob Boss 315 decks
2 Zada, Hedron Grinder 83 decks
3 The Great Goblin 53 decks
4 Norin the Wary 15 decks
5 Muxus, Goblin Grandee 12 decks
6 Grub, Storied Matriarch // Grub, Notorious Auntie 10 decks
7 Grenzo, Dungeon Warden 9 decks
8 General Kreat, the Boltbringer 8 decks
9 Purphoros, God of the Forge 7 decks
10 Wort, Boggart Auntie 7 decks

Card text

Goblin Matron

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 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.