Deep Goblin Skulltaker LCI 0101 · common
Deep Goblin Skulltaker · {2}{B} · Creature — Goblin Warrior · Menace At the beginning of your end step, if you descended this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. (You descended if a permanent card was put into your graveyard from anywhere.) · Power / toughness: 2/2 · "Go away! I found it first!"
- Price
- from $0.171 printing
- Win rate
- 49.4% GIH 28,613 instances · Premier Draft
Nov 9–Dec 25, 2023 · 17Lands - Draft
- ◆ Key pickMenace becomes harder to contain if you can descend on successive turns.
- Job
- Payoffs
Game-in-hand win rate, all deck colors. 14,147 wins in 28,613 card-in-hand instances.
25,806 distinct games · 9,234 distinct drafts · games recorded Nov 9–Dec 25, 2023.
17Lands file dated Dec 27, 2023 · 100-instance minimum · 17Lands public data ↗
Menace becomes harder to contain if you can descend on successive turns.
How this changes your picks
Rules-derived- Take it when
- Attack early and arrange for a permanent card to reach your graveyard on successive turns. Look for support such as Greedy Freebooter and Bitter Triumph.
- What to take next
- Trade Freebooter in combat to descend, leaving Treasure while Zoyowa pressures the opponent at your end step.
- Wrong pick
- Sacrificing a Treasure token alone does not make you descend. Avoid holding back useful attacks merely to keep every creature alive.
- Mana & splash
- Count the colored sources needed to cast this card on time; a synergy payoff is not a reason to weaken an otherwise consistent mana base.
Support cards
3Interactions from the card text, not a ranking.
More
- One-pick Draft
- Menace becomes harder to contain if you can descend on successive turns.
Draft data
−5.9 pp vs 55.3% average · 28,613 instances
Premier Draft · Nov 9–Dec 25, 2023 · average from 823,614 games
#232 of 251 nonland cards by win rate · last seen around pick 6.5 on average (260,225 packs).
37 of 42 black cards · 17 of 19 black common cards.
69,297.7 matches
Pick and maindeck observations: Nov 9–Dec 25, 2023. Played/benched cells use matches when available; the drawn cell uses game instances.
○ Opening hand 48.2% · 11,593 instances
● Drawn later 50.3% · 17,020 instances
In hand 49.4% · 28,613 instances
Unseen in deck 50.1% · 39,475 instances
−0.7 percentage points when drawn
Compared with black cards
Ranks require 100 observations for that metric; comparisons are descriptive, not a pick order. Pick ranks put earlier picks first.
Best decks for it
no-splash decks only · card-level in-hand rates · 100 minimum
Echoes of the Dead UB51.0%6,688 instancesGoing Down! BR50.4%6,451 instancesDusk Legion Pilgrimage WB49.4%4,976 instancesFungal Festering BG49.0%4,098 instancesEach tick is this card’s all-decks rate (49.4% · 28,613 instances). A high card rate does not prove that splashing it will improve your deck.
Best with
Adjusted associations, ranked by confidence.
Dead Weight+2.8 pp30,702 games with both in the deck · 7,813 both drawnHow to read this
Observational, not a causal bonus. Both cards must be in the deck. Drawn means opening hand or normally drawn; each card counts once per game. Game-level approximate intervals do not account for repeated games by the same drafter.
At least 100 games in each of four drawn/not-drawn groups; adjusted for game length and screened by the lower confidence bound. Do not add these points to a card’s win rate.
Where it sits in the set
Above 8% of 251 nonland cards with 100+ instances, in win-rate order.
17Lands public datasets ↗ · CC BY 4.0 ↗ · Nov 9–Dec 25, 2023
Pick a printing for its prices and pull odds.
| Finish | Found in | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Nonfoil | draft · set | $0.17 |
| Foil | Collector Booster · draft · set | $0.24 |
Foil in a Collector Booster · Modeled · About 1 in 27 packs (3.70%) · 36.4% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →
Foil in a draft · Modeled · About 1 in 565 packs (0.18%) · 6.2% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →
Nonfoil in a draft · Modeled · About 1 in 11 packs (9.36%) · 97.1% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →
Foil in a set · Modeled · About 1 in 188 packs (0.53%) · 14.8% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →
Nonfoil in a set · Modeled · About 1 in 23 packs (4.31%) · 73.4% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →
How to pull it
Official rates for the whole category, not this card.
| Booster | Slot | Per pack | Category |
|---|---|---|---|
| Draft Booster | Commons | 100% per position | Commons |
| Draft Booster | Common or traditional foil | 67% | Common |
| Draft Booster | Common or traditional foil | 33% | Traditional foil of any rarity |
| Set Booster | Commons | 100% per position | Commons |
| Set Booster | Traditional foil of any rarity | 100% | Traditional foil of any rarity |
| Set Booster | Wildcards | 100% per position | Wildcards |
| Collector Booster | Traditional foil commons | 100% per position | Traditional foil commons |
Wizards · Collecting The Lost Caverns of Ixalan ↗ · Oct 29, 2026
Details & sources
- Legal in
- Standard · Historic · Timeless · Pioneer · Modern · Legacy · Pauper · Vintage · CommanderLimited eligibility depends on the event and its booster pool.
- Illustration
- Cristi Balanescu, LCI 101 · Scryfall ↗
- More like this
- Going Down! cards → · Regular printing printings →
- Sources
- Wizards · Collecting The Lost Caverns of Ixalan · Oct 29, 2026
Scryfall USD, snapshot Oct 25
Comprehensive Rules ↗