Live Play Data

Angel of Invention

· Creature — Angel · Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

227

Decks Running

128

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

67%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=33

64%

T6-9

15%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 8 · max 15

On curve 21% (3 / 33 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 28%

The "good card" funnel

227 brought · 124 players

Brought to game

227

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 30% 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.

≥ -6.3pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=29) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=149).

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 +10.8pp; 95% confidence interval -6.3pp to +27.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

56 instances

1.8%

Library

17.9%

Battlefield

37.5%

Graveyard

16.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Zurgo Stormrender 26 decks
2 Giada, Font of Hope 25 decks
3 Satya, Aetherflux Genius 15 decks
4 Odric, Lunarch Marshal 6 decks
5 Kaalia of the Vast 4 decks
6 Drana and Linvala 3 decks
7 Hope Estheim 3 decks
8 Avacyn, Angel of Hope 2 decks
9 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite 2 decks
10 Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines 2 decks

Card text

Angel of Invention

Creature — Angel

Flying, vigilance, lifelink Fabricate 2 (When this creature enters, put two +1/+1 counters on it or create two 1/1 colorless Servo artifact creature tokens.) Other creatures you control get +1/+1.

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Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC) · Mythic · Illustrated by Volkan Baǵa

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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.