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Live Play Data

Aven Courier

{1} {U} · Creature — Bird Advisor · New Capenna Commander (NCC)
0%
Live Inclusion
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Times Brought
188
Decks Running
55
Median Cast Turn
5
Drawn → Played
74%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=31
3%
T1
19%
T2
6%
T3
16%
T4
10%
T5
39%
T6-9
6%
T10+
Median 5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 11
On curve 23% (6 / 31 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

The "good card" funnel

188 brought · 55 players
Brought to game
188
Ever drawn
42
Reached battlefield
31
Still on board at game end
15

Once cast, 48% 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.

≥ -13.4pp

Players who cast this card win 19% of the time (n=29) , vs 17% when it never left the library (n=130).

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 +2.0pp; 95% confidence interval -13.4pp to +17.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

43 instances
2.3%
Library
34.9%
Battlefield
30.2%
Graveyard
4.7%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Aven Courier card

Aven Courier

{1} {U}
Creature — Bird Advisor
Flying Whenever this creature attacks, choose a counter on a permanent you control. Put a counter of that kind on target permanent you control if it doesn't have a counter of that kind on it.
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New Capenna Commander (NCC) · Rare · Illustrated by Lars Grant-West

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.