Live Play Data

Ethereal Investigator

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

188

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

64%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=27

11%

15%

48%

T6-9

15%

T10+

Median 7 P25 4 · P75 9 · max 14

On curve 30% (4 / 27 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 30%

The "good card" funnel

188 brought · 87 players

Brought to game

188

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 63% 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.

≥ -10.1pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=24) , vs 19% when it never left the library (n=124).

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 +9.8pp; 95% confidence interval -10.1pp to +29.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

48 instances

35.4%

Battlefield

31.3%

Graveyard

6.3%

Exile

27.1%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Morska, Undersea Sleuth 19 decks
2 Millicent, Restless Revenant 10 decks
3 Marneus Calgar 6 decks
4 Lonis, Cryptozoologist 4 decks
5 Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer 3 decks
6 Tamiyo, Inquisitive Student // Tamiyo, Seasoned Scholar 3 decks
7 Whtz, the Bibliophile 3 decks
8 Cynette, Jelly Drover 2 decks
9 Errant and Giada 2 decks
10 Lazav, Wearer of Faces 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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.