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Goblin Warchief

· Creature — Goblin Warrior · Dominaria (DOM)

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Times Brought

386

Decks Running

219

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 Warchief

Creature — Goblin Warrior

Goblin spells you cast cost {1}

less to cast. Goblins you control have haste.

2 / 2

Dominaria (DOM) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Karl Kopinski

Final zone distribution

75 instances

6.7%

Library

54.7%

Battlefield

22.7%

Graveyard

4.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Krenko, Mob Boss 133 decks
2 Zada, Hedron Grinder 41 decks
3 The Great Goblin 12 decks
4 Grub, Storied Matriarch // Grub, Notorious Auntie 5 decks
5 Bolg, Erebor's Reckoning 4 decks
6 General Kreat, the Boltbringer 4 decks
7 Grenzo, Dungeon Warden 4 decks
8 Krenko, Tin Street Kingpin 4 decks
9 Purphoros, God of the Forge 2 decks
10 Alesha, Who Laughs at Fate 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

386 brought · 197 players

Brought to game

386

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 68% 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.

≥ -4.5pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=51) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=232).

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 +2.9pp; 95% confidence interval -4.5pp to +10.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=60

20%

22%

20%

T6-9

T10+

Median 3.5 P25 2 · P75 5 · max 10

On curve 50% (13 / 60 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 37%

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.