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Norman Osborn // Green Goblin

Legendary Creature — Human Scientist Villain // Legendary Creature — Goblin Human Villain · Marvel's Spider-Man (SPM)
Times Brought
222
Decks Running
107
In Decks
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Decklist Inclusion
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Format

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

Card text
Norman Osborn // Green Goblin card Norman Osborn // Green Goblin back face

Norman Osborn

{1} {U}
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}{U}{B}{R}: Transform Norman Osborn. Activate only as a sorcery.
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Green Goblin

{1} {U} {B} {R}
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

48 instances
54.2%
Battlefield
29.2%
Graveyard
10.4%
Exile
6.3%
Hand

The "good card" funnel

222 brought · 103 players
Brought to game
222
Ever drawn
47
Reached battlefield
42
Still on board at game end
26

Once cast, 62% 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.

≥ -6.0pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=31) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=125).

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 +3.8pp; 95% confidence interval -6.0pp to +13.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=116
23%
T1
29%
T2
21%
T3
5%
T4
4%
T5
16%
T6-9
2%
T10+
Median 2.0 P25 2 · P75 4 · max 10
On curve 53% (34 / 116 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 39%

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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.