Live Play Data

Hobgoblin Bandit Lord

· Creature — Goblin Rogue · Adventures in the Forgotten Realms (AFR)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

267

Decks Running

122

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

78%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=39

15%

21%

46%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 12

On curve 23% (6 / 39 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 47%

The "good card" funnel

267 brought · 118 players

Brought to game

267

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 56% 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.

≥ -20.5pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=31) , vs 32% when it never left the library (n=177).

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 -6.2pp; 95% confidence interval -20.5pp to +8.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

56 instances

7.1%

Library

39.3%

Battlefield

26.8%

Graveyard

12.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Krenko, Mob Boss 91 decks
2 The Great Goblin 5 decks
3 Wort, Boggart Auntie 4 decks
4 General Kreat, the Boltbringer 3 decks
5 Grub, Storied Matriarch // Grub, Notorious Auntie 2 decks
6 Zada, Hedron Grinder 2 decks
7 Garna, Bloodfist of Keld 1 decks
8 Grenzo, Dungeon Warden 1 decks
9 Ib Halfheart, Goblin Tactician 1 decks
10 Imodane, the Pyrohammer 1 decks

Card text

Hobgoblin Bandit Lord

Creature — Goblin Rogue

Other Goblins you control get +1/+1. {R}

: This creature deals damage equal to the number of Goblins that entered the battlefield under your control this turn to any target.

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Adventures in the Forgotten Realms (AFR) · Rare · Illustrated by Mark Zug

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.