Live Play Data

Sunbird's Invocation

· Enchantment · Commander 2021 (C21)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

582

Decks Running

276

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

55%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=81

14%

19%

53%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 13

On curve 60% (18 / 81 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 20%

The "good card" funnel

584 brought · 254 players

Brought to game

584

Ever drawn

148

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 75% 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.

≥ -8.1pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=77) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=358).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 24% (n=60).

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 +1.9pp; 95% confidence interval -8.1pp to +12.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

168 instances

5.4%

Library

36.3%

Battlefield

22.6%

Graveyard

3.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Bello, Bard of the Brambles 98 decks
2 Kardur, Doomscourge 23 decks
3 Ashling, Rekindled // Ashling, Rimebound 14 decks
4 Tannuk, Steadfast Second 10 decks
5 Ruby, Daring Tracker 8 decks
6 Jodah, Archmage Eternal 7 decks
7 Averna, the Chaos Bloom 6 decks
8 Wildsear, Scouring Maw 6 decks
9 Yidris, Maelstrom Wielder 6 decks
10 Maelstrom Wanderer 5 decks

Card text

Sunbird's Invocation

Enchantment

Whenever you cast a spell from your hand, reveal the top X cards of your library, where X is that spell's mana value. You may cast a spell with mana value X or less from among cards revealed this way without paying its mana cost. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Commander 2021 (C21) · Rare · Illustrated by Christine Choi

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.