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Live Play Data

The Goose Mother

{X} {G} {U} · Legendary Creature — Bird Hydra · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)
3%
Live Inclusion
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Times Brought
979
Decks Running
395
Median Cast Turn
6
Drawn → Played
58%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=165
0%
T1
1%
T2
4%
T3
9%
T4
21%
T5
50%
T6-9
16%
T10+
Median 6 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 19
Cast same turn as drawn 32%

The "good card" funnel

979 brought · 364 players
Brought to game
979
Ever drawn
250
Reached battlefield
144
Still on board at game end
79

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.

≥ -3.2pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=141) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=652).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 21% (n=102).

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 +4.4pp; 95% confidence interval -3.2pp to +12.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

270 instances
1.9%
Library
29.3%
Battlefield
27.4%
Graveyard
6.3%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
The Goose Mother card

The Goose Mother

{X} {G} {U}
Legendary Creature — Bird Hydra
Flying The Goose Mother enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. When The Goose Mother enters, create half X Food tokens, rounded up. Whenever The Goose Mother attacks, you may sacrifice a Food. If you do, draw a card.
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Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) · Rare · Illustrated by Jesper Ejsing

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 780,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.