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Aether Channeler

· Creature — Human Wizard · Dominaria United (DMU)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

199

Decks Running

106

In Decks

850

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Final zone distribution

46 instances

37.0%

Battlefield

34.8%

Graveyard

6.5%

Exile

21.7%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Zinnia, Valley's Voice 35 decks
2 Brago, King Eternal 8 decks
3 Orvar, the All-Form 5 decks
4 Inalla, Archmage Ritualist 3 decks
5 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 3 decks
6 Muddle, the Ever-Changing 3 decks
7 Aminatou, the Fateshifter 2 decks
8 Clement, the Worrywort 2 decks
9 Ephara, God of the Polis 2 decks
10 Gogo, Master of Mimicry 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

199 brought · 94 players

Brought to game

199

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 50% 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.

≥ -17.6pp

Players who cast this card win 19% of the time (n=34) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=140).

Observed gap -3.1pp; 95% confidence interval -17.6pp to +11.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=34

18%

44%

T6-9

12%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 12

On curve 21% (6 / 34 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 28%

34 of 100 times cast 34%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 630,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.