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Grishnákh, Brash Instigator

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

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Times Brought

505

Decks Running

229

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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

106 instances

34.9%

Battlefield

34.9%

Graveyard

7.5%

Exile

22.6%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sauron, the Dark Lord 99 decks
2 Sauron, Lord of the Rings 81 decks
3 The Great Goblin 18 decks
4 Saruman, the White Hand 14 decks
5 Zurgo Helmsmasher 4 decks
6 Krenko, Mob Boss 2 decks
7 Mauhúr, Uruk-hai Captain 2 decks
8 Uglúk of the White Hand 2 decks
9 Arabella, Abandoned Doll 1 decks
10 General Kreat, the Boltbringer 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

505 brought · 214 players

Brought to game

505

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 53% 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.

≥ -9.4pp

Players who cast this card win 21% of the time (n=51) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=281).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 29% (n=20).

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 -2.1pp; 95% confidence interval -9.4pp to +5.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=70

13%

19%

50%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 12

On curve 17% (9 / 70 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 28%

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.