Live Play Data

Grishnákh, Brash Instigator

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

446

Decks Running

227

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

62%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=66

17%

14%

42%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 13

On curve 17% (5 / 66 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 26%

The "good card" funnel

446 brought · 205 players

Brought to game

446

Ever drawn

106

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

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.

≥ -4.7pp

Players who cast this card win 23% of the time (n=60) , vs 17% when it never left the library (n=269).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 22% (n=36).

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 +6.0pp; 95% confidence interval -4.7pp to +16.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

128 instances

3.9%

Library

16.4%

Battlefield

48.4%

Graveyard

10.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sauron, the Dark Lord 107 decks
2 Sauron, Lord of the Rings 62 decks
3 The Great Goblin 21 decks
4 Saruman, the White Hand 16 decks
5 Zurgo Helmsmasher 5 decks
6 Krenko, Mob Boss 3 decks
7 Great Goblin, Foul-Hearted 2 decks
8 Bilbo, Retired Burglar 1 decks
9 Grub, Storied Matriarch // Grub, Notorious Auntie 1 decks
10 Neriv, Crackling Vanguard 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) · 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 710,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.