Live Play Data

Ethereal Investigator

· Creature — Spirit · Murders at Karlov Manor Commander (MKC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

249

Decks Running

109

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

60%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=36

11%

17%

11%

42%

T6-9

17%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 9 · max 14

On curve 31% (6 / 36 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 34%

The "good card" funnel

249 brought · 114 players

Brought to game

249

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 64% 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.

≥ -6.8pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=32) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=160).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 34% (n=22).

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 +10.0pp; 95% confidence interval -6.8pp to +26.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

68 instances

33.8%

Battlefield

30.9%

Graveyard

4.4%

Exile

30.9%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Morska, Undersea Sleuth 24 decks
2 Millicent, Restless Revenant 11 decks
3 Marneus Calgar 8 decks
4 Tamiyo, Inquisitive Student // Tamiyo, Seasoned Scholar 6 decks
5 Lonis, Cryptozoologist 5 decks
6 Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer 4 decks
7 Loki, Lord of Misrule 3 decks
8 Whtz, the Bibliophile 3 decks
9 Cynette, Jelly Drover 2 decks
10 Errant and Giada 2 decks

Card text

Ethereal Investigator

Creature — Spirit

Flying When this creature enters, investigate X times, where X is the number of opponents you have. (To investigate, create a Clue token. It's an artifact with " {2}

, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.") Whenever you draw your second card each turn, create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying.

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Murders at Karlov Manor Commander (MKC) · Rare · Illustrated by Sean Murray

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.