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Goblin Recruiter

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

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Times Brought

557

Decks Running

270

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 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

Final zone distribution

103 instances

3.9%

Library

35.0%

Battlefield

37.9%

Graveyard

6.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Krenko, Mob Boss 190 decks
2 The Great Goblin 16 decks
3 Zada, Hedron Grinder 14 decks
4 Purphoros, God of the Forge 7 decks
5 Muxus, Goblin Grandee 6 decks
6 General Kreat, the Boltbringer 4 decks
7 Grenzo, Dungeon Warden 4 decks
8 Krenko, Tin Street Kingpin 4 decks
9 Rakdos, the Muscle 4 decks
10 Grub, Storied Matriarch // Grub, Notorious Auntie 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

557 brought · 254 players

Brought to game

557

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 50% 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.

≥ -8.8pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=49) , vs 29% when it never left the library (n=333).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 17% (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 -1.3pp; 95% confidence interval -8.8pp to +6.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=72

24%

17%

18%

13%

26%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4.0 P25 3 · P75 6 · max 46

On curve 24% (17 / 72 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 35%

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.