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Guttersnipe

· Creature — Goblin Shaman · The Hobbit Eternal (HOC)

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Times Brought

1522

Decks Running

805

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

—

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

Card text

Guttersnipe

Creature — Goblin Shaman

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, this creature deals 2 damage to each opponent.

2 / 2

The Hobbit Eternal (HOC) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Simon Dominic

Final zone distribution

371 instances

1.1%

Library

49.1%

Battlefield

27.8%

Graveyard

4.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sauron, Lord of the Rings 72 decks
2 Vivi Ornitier 61 decks
3 Shiko and Narset, Unified 37 decks
4 Fire Lord Azula 36 decks
5 Krenko, Mob Boss 27 decks
6 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 26 decks
7 Niv-Mizzet, Parun 24 decks
8 Zada, Hedron Grinder 21 decks
9 Judith, Carnage Connoisseur 19 decks
10 Stella Lee, Wild Card 19 decks

The "good card" funnel

1522 brought · 700 players

Brought to game

1522

Ever drawn

353

Reached battlefield

274

Still on board at game end

182

Once cast, 66% 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.

≥ +0.9pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=215) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=856).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=55).

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 +4.6pp; 95% confidence interval +0.9pp to +8.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=274

14%

17%

14%

15%

33%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 15

On curve 31% (46 / 274 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 37%

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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.