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Part of Tales of Middle-earth
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Legendary Creature — Goblin Soldier
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The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR)
Live Play Data
Grishnákh, Brash Instigator
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Legendary Creature — Goblin Soldier
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The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR)
1%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
306
Decks Running
167
Median Cast Turn
6
Drawn → Played
67%
Format
First-cast turn
n=47
0%
T1
6%
T2
9%
T3
17%
T4
9%
T5
53%
T6-9
6%
T10+
Median
6
P25
4
· P75
8
· max
11
On curve
15%
(4 / 47 cast on T3)
Cast same turn as drawn
21%
The "good card" funnel
306 brought · 151 playersBrought to game
306
Ever drawn
70
Reached battlefield
47
Still on board at game end
13
Once cast, 28% 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.
≥ -5.6pp
Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=43) , vs 19% when it never left the library (n=185).
When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 30% (n=21).
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 +7.7pp; 95% confidence interval -5.6pp to +20.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
Final zone distribution
86 instances5.8%
Library
15.1%
Battlefield
47.7%
Graveyard
15.1%
Exile
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
Sauron, the Dark Lord
79 decks
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2
Sauron, Lord of the Rings
49 decks
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3
The Great Goblin
12 decks
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4
Saruman, the White Hand
11 decks
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5
Krenko, Mob Boss
3 decks
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6
Zurgo Helmsmasher
3 decks
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7
Great Goblin, Foul-Hearted
2 decks
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8
Bilbo, Retired Burglar
1 decks
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9
Grub, Storied Matriarch // Grub, Notorious Auntie
1 decks
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10
Nicol Bolas, the Ravager // Nicol Bolas, the Arisen
1 decks
Card text
Grishnákh, Brash Instigator
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)
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Uncommon
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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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.