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Goblin Matron

· Creature — Goblin · The List (PLST)

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Times Brought

644

Decks Running

343

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

—

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 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

Final zone distribution

120 instances

2.5%

Library

47.5%

Battlefield

20.8%

Graveyard

3.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Krenko, Mob Boss 184 decks
2 Zada, Hedron Grinder 58 decks
3 The Great Goblin 32 decks
4 Bolg, Erebor's Reckoning 6 decks
5 Grenzo, Dungeon Warden 6 decks
6 Grub, Storied Matriarch // Grub, Notorious Auntie 6 decks
7 Krenko, Tin Street Kingpin 6 decks
8 Purphoros, God of the Forge 5 decks
9 General Kreat, the Boltbringer 4 decks
10 Norin the Wary 4 decks

The "good card" funnel

644 brought · 304 players

Brought to game

644

Ever drawn

117

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 69% 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.

≥ -3.6pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=68) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=391).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 31% (n=24).

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 +2.6pp; 95% confidence interval -3.6pp to +8.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=83

10%

23%

14%

25%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 3 · P75 6 · max 11

On curve 41% (19 / 83 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 37%

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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.