Live Play Data

Goblin War Strike

· Sorcery · Scourge (SCG)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

317

Decks Running

141

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

64%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=34

15%

71%

T6-9

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 8 · max 12

On curve 0% (0 / 34 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 22%

The "good card" funnel

317 brought · 138 players

Brought to game

317

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ +1.6pp

Players who cast this card win 48% of the time (n=30) , vs 29% when it never left the library (n=214).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 33% (n=15).

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 +18.1pp; 95% confidence interval +1.6pp to +34.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

63 instances

6.3%

Library

11.1%

Battlefield

52.4%

Graveyard

3.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Krenko, Mob Boss 116 decks
2 Grenzo, Dungeon Warden 5 decks
3 Ovika, Enigma Goliath 3 decks
4 The Great Goblin 2 decks
5 Wort, Boggart Auntie 2 decks
6 Zada, Hedron Grinder 2 decks
7 Arabella, Abandoned Doll 1 decks
8 General Kreat, the Boltbringer 1 decks
9 Grub, Storied Matriarch // Grub, Notorious Auntie 1 decks
10 Ib Halfheart, Goblin Tactician 1 decks

Card text

Goblin War Strike

Sorcery

Goblin War Strike deals damage to target player or planeswalker equal to the number of Goblins you control.

Scourge (SCG) · Common · Illustrated by Pete Venters

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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.