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Goblin Recruiter
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Creature — Goblin
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Classic Sixth Edition (6ED)
Times Brought
218
Decks Running
116
In Decks
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Decklist Inclusion
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Format
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.
1 / 1
Classic Sixth Edition (6ED)
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Uncommon
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Illustrated by Scott Kirschner
Final zone distribution
40 instances5.0%
Library
27.5%
Battlefield
40.0%
Graveyard
10.0%
Exile
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
Krenko, Mob Boss
85 decks
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2
Zada, Hedron Grinder
9 decks
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3
The Great Goblin
5 decks
-
4
General Kreat, the Boltbringer
3 decks
-
5
Krenko, Tin Street Kingpin
3 decks
-
6
Grenzo, Dungeon Warden
2 decks
-
7
Grub, Storied Matriarch // Grub, Notorious Auntie
2 decks
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8
Purphoros, God of the Forge
2 decks
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9
Delina, Wild Mage
1 decks
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10
Ib Halfheart, Goblin Tactician
1 decks
The "good card" funnel
218 brought · 107 playersBrought to game
218
Ever drawn
38
Reached battlefield
27
Still on board at game end
11
Once cast, 41% 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.
≥ -11.1pp
Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=22) , vs 29% when it never left the library (n=137).
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 +0.2pp; 95% confidence interval -11.1pp to +11.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
First-cast turn
n=27
22%
T1
22%
T2
15%
T3
22%
T4
4%
T5
15%
T6-9
0%
T10+
Median
3
P25
2
· P75
4
· max
8
On curve
44%
(6 / 27 cast on T2)
Cast same turn as drawn
54%
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.