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Live Play Data

The Great Goblin

{1} {B/R} {B/R} · Legendary Creature — Goblin Noble · The Hobbit (HOB)
1%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
167
Decks Running
94
Median Cast Turn
4
Drawn → Played
82%
Format

First-cast turn

n=109
2%
T1
14%
T2
30%
T3
12%
T4
17%
T5
20%
T6-9
5%
T10+
Median 4 P25 3 · P75 5 · max 11
On curve 46% (33 / 109 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 36%

The "good card" funnel

167 brought · 86 players
Brought to game
167
Ever drawn
45
Reached battlefield
37
Still on board at game end
23

Once cast, 62% 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 18% of the time (n=34) , vs 12% when it never left the library (n=99).

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 +6.0pp; 95% confidence interval -7.8pp to +19.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

55 instances
41.8%
Battlefield
36.4%
Graveyard
7.3%
Exile
14.5%
Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
The Great Goblin card

The Great Goblin

{1} {B/R} {B/R}
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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.