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Orcrist, Goblin-cleaver

· Legendary Artifact — Equipment · The Hobbit (HOB)

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Times Brought

816

Decks Running

371

In Decks

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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

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

Final zone distribution

157 instances

1.3%

Library

57.3%

Battlefield

8.3%

Graveyard

3.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Thorin, King of Durin's Folk 65 decks
2 Dáin of the Ancient Halls 19 decks
3 Ekthi, Contaminator Priest 12 decks
4 The Great Goblin 11 decks
5 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 10 decks
6 Krenko, Mob Boss 9 decks
7 Smaug the Impenetrable 9 decks
8 Smaug the Magnificent 9 decks
9 Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER 7 decks
10 Beorn the Fierce 6 decks

The "good card" funnel

816 brought · 318 players

Brought to game

816

Ever drawn

150

Reached battlefield

104

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 87% 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.

≥ -7.8pp

Players who cast this card win 22% of the time (n=79) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=477).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 22% (n=36).

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 -1.8pp; 95% confidence interval -7.8pp to +4.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=104

12%

14%

13%

17%

30%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 12

On curve 30% (15 / 104 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 28%

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.