Live Play Data

Whir of Invention

· Instant · Aether Revolt (AER)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1286

Decks Running

567

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

49%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=162

15%

61%

T6-9

12%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 13

Cast same turn as drawn 28%

The "good card" funnel

1286 brought · 497 players

Brought to game

1286

Ever drawn

333

Reached battlefield

162

Still on board at game end

≥ +2.2pp

Players who cast this card win 38% of the time (n=150) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=817).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 31% (n=149).

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 +9.9pp; 95% confidence interval +2.2pp to +17.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

363 instances

3.6%

Library

3.0%

Battlefield

47.9%

Graveyard

8.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Urza, Lord High Artificer 60 decks
2 Zndrsplt, Eye of Wisdom 38 decks
3 Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy 28 decks
4 Shorikai, Genesis Engine 26 decks
5 Tony Stark // The Invincible Iron Man 17 decks
6 Breya, Etherium Shaper 15 decks
7 Tivit, Seller of Secrets 15 decks
8 Kilo, Apogee Mind 14 decks
9 Whtz, the Bibliophile 14 decks
10 Inspirit, Flagship Vessel 13 decks

Card text

Whir of Invention

Instant

Improvise (Your artifacts can help cast this spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for {1}

.) Search your library for an artifact card with mana value X or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Aether Revolt (AER) · 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 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.