Live Play Data

Gorbag of Minas Morgul

· Legendary Creature — Orc Soldier · The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

209

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

73%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=35

20%

11%

43%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 10

On curve 11% (3 / 35 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 41%

The "good card" funnel

209 brought · 90 players

Brought to game

209

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 26% 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.

≥ -17.9pp

Players who cast this card win 15% of the time (n=32) , vs 19% when it never left the library (n=132).

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 -4.3pp; 95% confidence interval -17.9pp to +9.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

55 instances

9.1%

Library

16.4%

Battlefield

54.5%

Graveyard

5.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 The Great Goblin 31 decks
2 Sauron, the Dark Lord 26 decks
3 Saruman, the White Hand 6 decks
4 Zurgo Helmsmasher 6 decks
5 Bolg, Erebor's Reckoning 4 decks
6 Goro-Goro and Satoru 2 decks
7 Grub, Storied Matriarch // Grub, Notorious Auntie 2 decks
8 Bolg of the North 1 decks
9 Garna, Bloodfist of Keld 1 decks
10 Ingris Stingerquill 1 decks

Card text

Gorbag of Minas Morgul

Legendary Creature — Orc Soldier

Whenever a Goblin or Orc you control deals combat damage to a player, you may sacrifice it. When you do, choose one — • Draw a card. • Create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with " {T}

, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

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The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Alex Brock

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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.