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Aether Channeler

· Creature — Human Wizard · Dominaria United (DMU)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

269

Decks Running

137

In Decks

1109

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Aether Channeler

Creature — Human Wizard

When this creature enters, choose one — • Create a 1/1 white Bird creature token with flying. • Return another target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. • Draw a card.

2 / 1

Dominaria United (DMU) · Rare · Illustrated by Caio Monteiro

Final zone distribution

64 instances

1.6%

Library

37.5%

Battlefield

31.3%

Graveyard

10.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Zinnia, Valley's Voice 39 decks
2 Brago, King Eternal 15 decks
3 Inalla, Archmage Ritualist 6 decks
4 Orvar, the All-Form 5 decks
5 Marchesa, the Black Rose 4 decks
6 Niko, Light of Hope 4 decks
7 Yarok, the Desecrated 4 decks
8 Aminatou, the Fateshifter 3 decks
9 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 3 decks
10 Muddle, the Ever-Changing 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

269 brought · 125 players

Brought to game

269

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.

≥ -13.1pp

Players who cast this card win 24% of the time (n=42) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=176).

Observed gap +0.6pp; 95% confidence interval -13.1pp to +14.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=48

13%

23%

40%

T6-9

17%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 12

On curve 17% (6 / 48 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

48 of 100 times cast 48%

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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.