Inventors' Fair
76% of drawn Inventors' Fair copies are cast before the game ends, with a median first-cast turn of 3 across 683 tracked multiplayer games on Playgroup Live.
Inventors' Fair shows up in 392 of 8720 tracked Commander decks, an inclusion rate of 5%. That is a specialist card, not an auto-include, and the commander distribution confirms it: the bulk of its appearances cluster in artifact-heavy shells.
When the card does land in a hand, players get it onto the battlefield 76% of the time. Median first cast falls on turn 3, consistent with it being played as a land in the early game rather than held as a late-game tutor. The sacrifice ability costs 4 mana and requires three or more artifacts in play, so the card demands a deck built around artifacts to earn its slot.
The data is well-spread: 309 distinct players have brought the card to a tracked game, and the single heaviest contributor accounts for just 2% of all instances. That breadth strengthens the signal despite the card's low overall inclusion rate.
- 5% of tracked Commander decks include Inventors' Fair
- T3 median turn the land first enters play
- 76% of drawn copies reach the battlefield before the game ends
- 65% battlefield stickiness once it resolves
- 309 distinct players have brought it to a tracked game
- 30% normalized win rate in games where Inventors' Fair resolved
First-cast turn
n=139The "good card" funnel
765 brought · 309 playersOf 765 copies brought to games, 184 were drawn, 139 of those were cast, and 65% of cast copies remained on the battlefield through the end of the game or resolved their sacrifice effect.
Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=128) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=533).
When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 36% (n=42) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.
Observed gap +6.8pp; 95% confidence interval -1.3pp to +15.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
Final zone distribution
200 instancesMost Inventors' Fair copies end the game on the battlefield or in the graveyard after being sacrificed for its tutor ability, a smaller library remainder reflects how often the card is drawn and acted upon rather than sitting unplayed.
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
Tony Stark // The Invincible Iron Man
19 decks
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2
Mr. House, President and CEO
11 decks
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3
Captain America, First Avenger
9 decks
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4
Dr. Eggman
9 decks
- 5 Ultron, Artificial Malevolence 9 decks
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6
Zndrsplt, Eye of Wisdom
8 decks
- 7 Molecule Man 7 decks
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8
Ragost, Deft Gastronaut
7 decks
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9
Toph, the First Metalbender
7 decks
- 10 Zhulodok, Void Gorger 7 decks
Tony Stark leads in raw deck count by a clear margin, but the commander list spans artifact archetypes across many color identities, showing Inventors' Fair is genuinely format-agnostic within the artifact archetype.