Live Play Data

Goblin Warchief

· Creature — Goblin Warrior · Dominaria (DOM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

662

Decks Running

333

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

88%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=158

21%

17%

15%

32%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 6 · max 13

On curve 32% (33 / 158 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 35%

The "good card" funnel

662 brought · 310 players

Brought to game

662

Ever drawn

180

Reached battlefield

158

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 49% 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.

≥ -0.5pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=145) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=387).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 29% (n=17).

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 +7.4pp; 95% confidence interval -0.5pp to +15.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

192 instances

5.2%

Library

40.6%

Battlefield

34.4%

Graveyard

9.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Krenko, Mob Boss 189 decks
2 Zada, Hedron Grinder 53 decks
3 The Great Goblin 23 decks
4 Grenzo, Dungeon Warden 8 decks
5 Grub, Storied Matriarch // Grub, Notorious Auntie 7 decks
6 Wort, Boggart Auntie 7 decks
7 General Kreat, the Boltbringer 4 decks
8 Great Goblin, Foul-Hearted 3 decks
9 Mishra, Claimed by Gix 3 decks
10 Muxus, Goblin Grandee 3 decks

Card text

Goblin Warchief

Creature — Goblin Warrior

Goblin spells you cast cost {1}

less to cast. Goblins you control have haste.

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Dominaria (DOM) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Karl Kopinski

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.