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Live Play Data

Orcrist, Goblin-cleaver

{3} · Legendary Artifact — Equipment · The Hobbit (HOB)
1%
Live Inclusion
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Times Brought
1810
Decks Running
661
Median Cast Turn
6.0
Drawn → Played
64%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=250
0%
T1
2%
T2
11%
T3
15%
T4
15%
T5
47%
T6-9
10%
T10+
Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 19
On curve 12% (27 / 250 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 27%

The "good card" funnel

1810 brought · 556 players
Brought to game
1810
Ever drawn
390
Reached battlefield
250
Still on board at game end
187

Once cast, 75% 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.

≥ -1.1pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=233) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=1173).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 18% (n=124).

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 +4.5pp; 95% confidence interval -1.1pp to +10.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

424 instances
5.4%
Library
44.1%
Battlefield
19.1%
Graveyard
4.5%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Orcrist, Goblin-cleaver card

Orcrist, Goblin-cleaver

{3}
Legendary Artifact — Equipment
Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has trample. Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, choose a creature type. Create a Treasure token for each creature you control of that type. Equip {3}
The Hobbit (HOB) · Mythic · Illustrated by Erikas Perl

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.