Live Play Data

Orcrist, Goblin-cleaver

· Legendary Artifact — Equipment · The Hobbit (HOB)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1369

Decks Running

549

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

63%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=180

12%

19%

16%

41%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 13

On curve 16% (22 / 180 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 27%

The "good card" funnel

1369 brought · 466 players

Brought to game

1369

Ever drawn

287

Reached battlefield

180

Still on board at game end

137

Once cast, 76% 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.

≥ -1.8pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=165) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=876).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 21% (n=94).

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 +4.8pp; 95% confidence interval -1.8pp to +11.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

315 instances

5.4%

Library

43.5%

Battlefield

20.3%

Graveyard

5.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Thorin, King of Durin's Folk 100 decks
2 Dáin of the Ancient Halls 41 decks
3 Ekthi, Contaminator Priest 34 decks
4 The Great Goblin 20 decks
5 Smaug the Magnificent 16 decks
6 Beorn the Fierce 12 decks
7 Chief of the Wilds 12 decks
8 Krenko, Mob Boss 11 decks
9 Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER 10 decks
10 Edgar Markov 8 decks

Card text

Orcrist, Goblin-cleaver

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 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.