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Live Play Data

Grishnákh, Brash Instigator

{2} {R} · Legendary Creature — Goblin Soldier · The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR)
1%
Live Inclusion
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Times Brought
615
Decks Running
290
Median Cast Turn
6.0
Drawn → Played
66%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=100
2%
T1
8%
T2
7%
T3
13%
T4
19%
T5
41%
T6-9
10%
T10+
Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 13
On curve 17% (7 / 100 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 28%

The "good card" funnel

615 brought · 263 players
Brought to game
615
Ever drawn
152
Reached battlefield
100
Still on board at game end
32

Once cast, 32% 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.

≥ -1.2pp

Players who cast this card win 23% of the time (n=91) , vs 16% when it never left the library (n=367).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 19% (n=46).

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 +7.3pp; 95% confidence interval -1.2pp to +15.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

184 instances
3.8%
Library
17.4%
Battlefield
49.5%
Graveyard
10.3%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Grishnákh, Brash Instigator card

Grishnákh, Brash Instigator

{2} {R}
Legendary Creature — Goblin Soldier
When Grishnákh enters, amass Orcs 2. When you do, until end of turn, gain control of target nonlegendary creature an opponent controls with power less than or equal to the amassed Army's power. Untap that creature. It gains haste until end of turn.
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The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Victor Harmatiuk

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.