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Whir of Invention

· Instant · Aether Revolt (AER)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

415

Decks Running

179

In Decks

1317

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

Final zone distribution

116 instances

6.0%

Library

4.3%

Battlefield

41.4%

Graveyard

10.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Urza, Lord High Artificer 18 decks
2 Zndrsplt, Eye of Wisdom 12 decks
3 Tony Stark // The Invincible Iron Man 10 decks
4 Kilo, Apogee Mind 9 decks
5 Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy 8 decks
6 Breya, Etherium Shaper 7 decks
7 Mendicant Core, Guidelight 6 decks
8 Okaun, Eye of Chaos 5 decks
9 Tivit, Seller of Secrets 5 decks
10 Emry, Lurker of the Loch 4 decks

The "good card" funnel

415 brought · 165 players

Brought to game

415

Ever drawn

109

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -6.6pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=48) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=275).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 31% (n=56) — 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 +6.7pp; 95% confidence interval -6.6pp to +20.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=49

16%

55%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 7 · max 13

Cast same turn as drawn 30%

49 of 100 times cast 49%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

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 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.