Live Play Data

The Great Goblin

· Legendary Creature — Goblin Noble · The Hobbit (HOB)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

231

Decks Running

126

Median Cast Turn

4.0

Drawn → Played

77%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=198

13%

32%

18%

17%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4.0 P25 3 · P75 5 · max 11

On curve 46% (64 / 198 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 31%

The "good card" funnel

231 brought · 114 players

Brought to game

231

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 49% 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.

≥ -3.6pp

Players who cast this card win 20% of the time (n=48) , vs 12% when it never left the library (n=135).

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 +7.9pp; 95% confidence interval -3.6pp to +19.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

77 instances

32.5%

Battlefield

45.5%

Graveyard

5.2%

Exile

16.9%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sauron, the Dark Lord 87 decks
2 Saruman, the White Hand 14 decks
3 Auntie Ool, Cursewretch 5 decks
4 Sauron, Lord of the Rings 4 decks
5 Great Goblin, Foul-Hearted 2 decks
6 Grub, Storied Matriarch // Grub, Notorious Auntie 2 decks
7 Smaug, Wicked Worm 2 decks
8 Bolg of the North 1 decks
9 Grenzo, Dungeon Warden 1 decks
10 Gut, True Soul Zealot 1 decks

Card text

The Great Goblin

Legendary Creature — Goblin Noble

Whenever you put one or more counters on a Goblin, Orc, or Army you control, The Great Goblin deals 2 damage to target opponent. Whenever another Goblin, Orc, or Army you control dies, exile the top card of your library. You may play it until the end of your next turn.

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The Hobbit (HOB) · Rare · Illustrated by Miklós Ligeti

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.