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Grishnákh, Brash Instigator

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

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

197

Decks Running

109

In Decks

632

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Victor Harmatiuk

Final zone distribution

53 instances

3.8%

Library

11.3%

Battlefield

50.9%

Graveyard

17.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sauron, the Dark Lord 50 decks
2 Sauron, Lord of the Rings 36 decks
3 The Great Goblin 8 decks
4 Saruman, the White Hand 4 decks
5 Krenko, Mob Boss 3 decks
6 Zurgo Helmsmasher 2 decks
7 Great Goblin, Foul-Hearted 1 decks
8 Grub, Storied Matriarch // Grub, Notorious Auntie 1 decks
9 Norin, Swift Survivalist 1 decks
10 Sek'Kuar, Deathkeeper 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

197 brought · 98 players

Brought to game

197

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 21% 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.

≥ -9.2pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=24) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=124).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=15) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +9.2pp; 95% confidence interval -9.2pp to +27.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=28

11%

21%

46%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 10

On curve 18% (3 / 28 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 23%

28 of 100 times cast 28%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

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Why isn't there more data on this card?

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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 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.