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The Great Goblin

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

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Times Brought

173

Decks Running

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

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

Final zone distribution

44 instances

40.9%

Battlefield

31.8%

Graveyard

27.3%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sauron, the Dark Lord 58 decks
2 Saruman, the White Hand 9 decks
3 Sauron, Lord of the Rings 5 decks
4 Grub, Storied Matriarch // Grub, Notorious Auntie 3 decks
5 Smaug, Wicked Worm 3 decks
6 Bolg of the North 2 decks
7 Mauhúr, Uruk-hai Captain 2 decks
8 Shagrat, Loot Bearer 2 decks
9 Tom Bombadil 2 decks
10 Uglúk of the White Hand 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

173 brought · 90 players

Brought to game

173

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 56% 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.

≥ -10.2pp

Players who cast this card win 20% of the time (n=27) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=100).

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 +0.4pp; 95% confidence interval -10.2pp to +11.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=119

23%

24%

20%

11%

18%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 2 · P75 5 · max 11

On curve 49% (28 / 119 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

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.