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Aerial Extortionist

· Creature — Bird Soldier · Murders at Karlov Manor Commander (MKC)

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Times Brought

264

Decks Running

162

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

Aerial Extortionist

Creature — Bird Soldier

Flying Whenever this creature enters or deals combat damage to a player, exile up to one target nonland permanent. For as long as that card remains exiled, its owner may cast it. Whenever another player casts a spell from anywhere other than their hand, draw a card.

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Murders at Karlov Manor Commander (MKC) · Rare · Illustrated by Deruchenko Alexander

Final zone distribution

54 instances

1.9%

Library

35.2%

Battlefield

22.2%

Graveyard

5.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign 25 decks
2 Morska, Undersea Sleuth 14 decks
3 Choco, Seeker of Paradise 12 decks
4 Niko, Light of Hope 12 decks
5 Kastral, the Windcrested 10 decks
6 Whtz, the Bibliophile 8 decks
7 Arthur, Marigold Knight 5 decks
8 Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines 5 decks
9 Kamiz, Obscura Oculus 5 decks
10 Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima 4 decks

The "good card" funnel

264 brought · 153 players

Brought to game

264

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 66% 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.

≥ +1.3pp

Players who cast this card win 37% of the time (n=23) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=151).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 20% (n=15).

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 +11.3pp; 95% confidence interval +1.3pp to +21.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=29

10%

17%

62%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 7 · max 9

On curve 38% (5 / 29 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 42%

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.