Live Play Data

Aether Refinery

· Artifact · Modern Horizons 3 Commander (M3C)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

158

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

6.5

Drawn → Played

65%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=26

77%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.5 P25 6 · P75 8 · max 10

On curve 50% (8 / 26 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 21%

The "good card" funnel

158 brought · 70 players

Brought to game

158

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 77% 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.

≥ -7.9pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=25) , vs 18% when it never left the library (n=98).

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 +10.6pp; 95% confidence interval -7.9pp to +29.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

47 instances

2.1%

Library

42.6%

Battlefield

25.5%

Graveyard

4.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Satya, Aetherflux Genius 35 decks
2 Saheeli, Radiant Creator 13 decks
3 Dr. Madison Li 10 decks
4 Liberty Prime, Recharged 8 decks
5 Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer 1 decks
6 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 1 decks
7 Maximus, Knight Apparent 1 decks
8 Pia Nalaar, Chief Mechanic 1 decks
9 Toph, the First Metalbender 1 decks
10 Zagorka, Mother of Sanctum 1 decks

Card text

Aether Refinery

Artifact

If you would get one or more {E}

(energy counters), you get twice that many {E}

instead.

: You get

, then you may pay one or more {E}

. If you do, create an X/X black Aetherborn creature token, where X is the amount of {E}

paid this way.

Modern Horizons 3 Commander (M3C) · Rare · Illustrated by Daniel Ljunggren

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.