Live Play Data

Aether Channeler

· Creature — Human Wizard · Dominaria United (DMU)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

941

Decks Running

407

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

75%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=188

12%

15%

11%

46%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 16

On curve 18% (22 / 188 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 37%

The "good card" funnel

941 brought · 381 players

Brought to game

941

Ever drawn

250

Reached battlefield

188

Still on board at game end

101

Once cast, 54% 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.

≥ -2.4pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=168) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=592).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=61).

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 +5.1pp; 95% confidence interval -2.4pp to +12.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

268 instances

1.9%

Library

37.7%

Battlefield

32.8%

Graveyard

9.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Zinnia, Valley's Voice 89 decks
2 Brago, King Eternal 47 decks
3 Orvar, the All-Form 23 decks
4 Inalla, Archmage Ritualist 18 decks
5 Whtz, the Bibliophile 14 decks
6 Y'shtola Rhul 14 decks
7 Arthur, Marigold Knight 9 decks
8 Marchesa, the Black Rose 8 decks
9 Satya, Aetherflux Genius 8 decks
10 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 7 decks

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.

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

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 750,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.