Live Play Data

Goblin Recruiter

· Creature — Goblin · Classic Sixth Edition (6ED)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

663

Decks Running

288

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

76%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=111

16%

14%

37%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 12

On curve 23% (18 / 111 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 50%

The "good card" funnel

663 brought · 266 players

Brought to game

663

Ever drawn

147

Reached battlefield

111

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 47% 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.

≥ -5.0pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=99) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=423).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=29).

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 +4.1pp; 95% confidence interval -5.0pp to +13.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

162 instances

4.9%

Library

32.1%

Battlefield

38.3%

Graveyard

5.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Krenko, Mob Boss 201 decks
2 The Great Goblin 13 decks
3 Zada, Hedron Grinder 10 decks
4 Muxus, Goblin Grandee 8 decks
5 General Kreat, the Boltbringer 6 decks
6 Wort, Boggart Auntie 6 decks
7 Purphoros, God of the Forge 4 decks
8 Grub, Storied Matriarch // Grub, Notorious Auntie 3 decks
9 Norin the Wary 3 decks
10 Rakdos, the Muscle 3 decks

Card text

Goblin Recruiter

Creature — Goblin

When this creature enters, search your library for any number of Goblin cards, reveal them, then shuffle and put those cards on top in any order.

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Classic Sixth Edition (6ED) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Scott Kirschner

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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.