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Sunbird's Invocation

· Enchantment · Commander 2021 (C21)

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Times Brought

625

Decks Running

299

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

138 instances

2.9%

Library

42.0%

Battlefield

13.0%

Graveyard

2.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Bello, Bard of the Brambles 146 decks
2 Kardur, Doomscourge 19 decks
3 Ashling, Rekindled // Ashling, Rimebound 8 decks
4 Jodah, Archmage Eternal 7 decks
5 Lorehold, the Historian 7 decks
6 Ovika, Enigma Goliath 7 decks
7 Tannuk, Steadfast Second 7 decks
8 Kaervek the Merciless 5 decks
9 Ruby, Daring Tracker 5 decks
10 Yidris, Maelstrom Wielder 5 decks

The "good card" funnel

625 brought · 280 players

Brought to game

625

Ever drawn

131

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 82% 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.

≥ +4.7pp

Players who cast this card win 37% of the time (n=54) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=356).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 17% (n=46).

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 +11.1pp; 95% confidence interval +4.7pp to +17.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=71

15%

51%

T6-9

14%

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 17

On curve 55% (14 / 71 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 32%

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 750,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.