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Norman Osborn // Green Goblin

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

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Times Brought

Decks Running

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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

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

Final zone distribution

40 instances

Not enough tracked games yet to show a reliable final-zone breakdown.

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 31 decks
2 Norman Osborn // Green Goblin 14 decks
3 Loki, the Deceiver 4 decks
4 Cosmic Spider-Man 3 decks
5 Avatar Aang // Aang, Master of Elements 1 decks
6 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 1 decks
7 Kess, Dissident Mage 1 decks
8 Nekusar, the Mindrazer 1 decks
9 Nicol Bolas, the Ravager // Nicol Bolas, the Arisen 1 decks
10 Sauron, the Dark Lord 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

95 brought · 57 players

Brought to game

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 55% 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.

≥ -13.7pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=16) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=50).

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 +0.6pp; 95% confidence interval -13.7pp to +14.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=20

15%

55%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 9

On curve 20% (3 / 20 cast on T2)

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 670,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.