Live Play Data

Norman Osborn // Green Goblin

Legendary Creature — Human Scientist Villain // Legendary Creature — Goblin Human Villain · Marvel's Spider-Man (SPM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

289

Decks Running

128

Median Cast Turn

3.0

Drawn → Played

76%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=164

16%

32%

17%

18%

T6-9

T10+

Median 3.0 P25 2 · P75 5 · max 14

On curve 48% (52 / 164 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 43%

The "good card" funnel

290 brought · 119 players

Brought to game

290

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 49% 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.

≥ -2.9pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=66) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=159).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 45% (n=22).

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 +9.0pp; 95% confidence interval -2.9pp to +20.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

98 instances

1.0%

Library

35.7%

Battlefield

43.9%

Graveyard

5.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 77 decks
2 Loki, the Deceiver 13 decks
3 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 11 decks
4 Cosmic Spider-Man 8 decks
5 Thanos, the Mad Titan 8 decks
6 Sauron, the Dark Lord 5 decks
7 Fire Lord Azula 1 decks
8 Kess, Dissident Mage 1 decks
9 Marchesa, the Black Rose 1 decks
10 Nekusar, the Mindrazer 1 decks

Card text

Norman Osborn

Legendary Creature — Human Scientist Villain

Norman Osborn can't be blocked. Whenever Norman Osborn deals combat damage to a player, he connives. (Draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded a nonland card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.) {1}

: Transform Norman Osborn. Activate only as a sorcery.

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Green Goblin

Legendary Creature — Goblin Human Villain

Flying, menace Spells you cast from your graveyard cost {2}

less to cast. Goblin Formula — Each nonland card in your graveyard has mayhem. The mayhem cost is equal to its mana cost. (You may cast a card from your graveyard for its mayhem cost if you discarded it this turn. Timing rules still apply.)

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Marvel's Spider-Man (SPM) · Mythic · Illustrated by Scott M. Fischer

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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.