Live Play Data

Mu Yanling, Wind Rider

· Legendary Creature — Human Wizard Pilot · Aetherdrift (DFT)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

160

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

70%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=29

21%

14%

17%

41%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 16

On curve 34% (4 / 29 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 13%

The "good card" funnel

160 brought · 75 players

Brought to game

160

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 69% 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.

≥ +1.2pp

Players who cast this card win 40% of the time (n=25) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=109).

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 +19.8pp; 95% confidence interval +1.2pp to +38.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

42 instances

42.9%

Battlefield

31.0%

Graveyard

4.8%

Exile

21.4%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Edward Kenway 9 decks
2 Shorikai, Genesis Engine 9 decks
3 Miles "Tails" Prower 8 decks
4 Captain America, Living Legend 5 decks
5 Cynette, Jelly Drover 4 decks
6 Kotori, Pilot Prodigy 3 decks
7 Mendicant Core, Guidelight 3 decks
8 Cosima, God of the Voyage // The Omenkeel 2 decks
9 Gran-Gran 2 decks
10 Kykar, Wind's Fury 2 decks

Card text

Mu Yanling, Wind Rider

Legendary Creature — Human Wizard Pilot

When Mu Yanling enters, create a 3/2 colorless Vehicle artifact token with crew 1. Vehicles you control have flying. Whenever one or more creatures you control with flying deal combat damage to a player, draw a card.

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Aetherdrift (DFT) · Mythic · Illustrated by Justyna Dura

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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.