Live Play Data

Grim Hireling

· Creature — Tiefling Rogue · Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1541

Decks Running

690

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

67%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=243

12%

14%

15%

44%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 17

On curve 31% (35 / 243 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

The "good card" funnel

1542 brought · 608 players

Brought to game

1542

Ever drawn

363

Reached battlefield

243

Still on board at game end

116

Once cast, 48% 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.

≥ +3.1pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=225) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=971).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=105).

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 +9.4pp; 95% confidence interval +3.1pp to +15.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

404 instances

3.2%

Library

28.7%

Battlefield

34.4%

Graveyard

9.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Grim Hireling

Creature — Tiefling Rogue

Whenever one or more creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, create two Treasure tokens. {B}

, Sacrifice X Treasures: Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn. Activate only as a sorcery.

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Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB) · Rare · Illustrated by Tomas Duchek

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.