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Invigorating Surge

· Instant · Core Set 2021 (M21)

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Times Brought

214

Decks Running

103

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

Card text

Invigorating Surge

Instant

Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control, then double the number of +1/+1 counters on that creature.

Core Set 2021 (M21) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Randy Vargas

Final zone distribution

45 instances

11.1%

Battlefield

66.7%

Graveyard

2.2%

Exile

20.0%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Skullbriar, the Walking Grave 12 decks
2 Pako, Arcane Retriever 9 decks
3 Minsc & Boo, Timeless Heroes 7 decks
4 Animar, Soul of Elements 6 decks
5 Legolas, Master Archer 5 decks
6 Blor the Impervious 4 decks
7 Gargos, Vicious Watcher 4 decks
8 Me, the Immortal 4 decks
9 Zaxara, the Exemplary 4 decks
10 Sab-Sunen, Luxa Embodied 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

214 brought · 99 players

Brought to game

214

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -0.1pp

Players who cast this card win 37% of the time (n=28) , vs 27% 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 +9.2pp; 95% confidence interval -0.1pp to +18.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=32

13%

28%

53%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 7 · max 15

On curve 3% (1 / 32 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 28%

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 710,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.