Live Play Data

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· Creature — Goblin Mercenary · Aetherdrift (DFT)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

904

Decks Running

417

Median Cast Turn

4.0

Drawn → Played

79%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=170

12%

26%

12%

11%

31%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 14

On curve 41% (44 / 170 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 45%

The "good card" funnel

904 brought · 387 players

Brought to game

904

Ever drawn

216

Reached battlefield

170

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 58% 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.

≥ -2.4pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=144) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=582).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 20% (n=37).

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 +5.4pp; 95% confidence interval -2.4pp to +13.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

232 instances

5.6%

Library

42.7%

Battlefield

26.7%

Graveyard

8.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Krenko, Mob Boss 179 decks
2 Zada, Hedron Grinder 62 decks
3 The Great Goblin 37 decks
4 Ingris Stingerquill 25 decks
5 Winota, Joiner of Forces 14 decks
6 Muxus, Goblin Grandee 9 decks
7 General Kreat, the Boltbringer 7 decks
8 Ghyrson Starn, Kelermorph 5 decks
9 Grub, Storied Matriarch // Grub, Notorious Auntie 5 decks
10 Norin the Wary 5 decks

Card text

Howlsquad Heavy

Creature — Goblin Mercenary

Start your engines! Other Goblins you control have haste. At the beginning of combat on your turn, create a 1/1 red Goblin creature token. That token attacks this combat if able. Max speed — {T}

: Add

for each Goblin you control.

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Aetherdrift (DFT) · Rare · Illustrated by Leonardo Santanna

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.