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Sunbird's Invocation

· Enchantment · Commander 2021 (C21)

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Times Brought

273

Decks Running

137

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

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

Final zone distribution

56 instances

5.4%

Library

39.3%

Battlefield

17.9%

Graveyard

3.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Bello, Bard of the Brambles 61 decks
2 Ashling, Rekindled // Ashling, Rimebound 6 decks
3 Kardur, Doomscourge 6 decks
4 Tannuk, Steadfast Second 5 decks
5 Kaervek the Merciless 4 decks
6 Lorehold, the Historian 4 decks
7 Ovika, Enigma Goliath 4 decks
8 Ruby, Daring Tracker 4 decks
9 Zaffai, Thunder Conductor 4 decks
10 Radha, Heir to Keld 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

273 brought · 129 players

Brought to game

273

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 76% 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.

≥ -0.9pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=28) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=171).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 15% (n=20) — 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 +8.4pp; 95% confidence interval -0.9pp to +17.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=29

10%

52%

T6-9

17%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 17

On curve 41% (3 / 29 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 27%

29 of 100 times cast 28%

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Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.