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Aether Channeler

· Creature — Human Wizard · Dominaria United (DMU)

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Times Brought

609

Decks Running

280

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

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

148 instances

2.7%

Library

43.2%

Battlefield

29.7%

Graveyard

4.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Zinnia, Valley's Voice 76 decks
2 Brago, King Eternal 36 decks
3 Orvar, the All-Form 18 decks
4 Inalla, Archmage Ritualist 16 decks
5 Whtz, the Bibliophile 10 decks
6 Arthur, Marigold Knight 9 decks
7 Y'shtola Rhul 8 decks
8 Clement, the Worrywort 4 decks
9 Galadriel, Light of Valinor 4 decks
10 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 4 decks

The "good card" funnel

609 brought · 258 players

Brought to game

609

Ever drawn

145

Reached battlefield

111

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 58% 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 27% of the time (n=86) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=335).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 27% (n=26).

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 +4.6pp; 95% confidence interval -1.3pp to +10.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=111

20%

13%

39%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 8 · max 13

On curve 25% (22 / 111 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 39%

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.