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· Creature — Goblin Mercenary · Aetherdrift (DFT)

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Times Brought

249

Decks Running

135

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

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

Final zone distribution

57 instances

3.5%

Library

61.4%

Battlefield

14.0%

Graveyard

3.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Krenko, Mob Boss 71 decks
2 Zada, Hedron Grinder 28 decks
3 The Great Goblin 8 decks
4 Bolg, Erebor's Reckoning 4 decks
5 General Kreat, the Boltbringer 3 decks
6 Samut, the Driving Force 3 decks
7 Grenzo, Dungeon Warden 2 decks
8 Krenko, Tin Street Kingpin 2 decks
9 Purphoros, God of the Forge 2 decks
10 Toph, the First Metalbender 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

249 brought · 125 players

Brought to game

249

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 71% 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.

≥ -10.0pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=34) , vs 30% when it never left the library (n=142).

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 -1.1pp; 95% confidence interval -10.0pp to +7.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=49

12%

31%

14%

12%

20%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 3 · P75 5 · max 13

On curve 49% (15 / 49 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 35%

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.