Live Play Data

Whir of Invention

· Instant · Aether Revolt (AER)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1629

Decks Running

685

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

46%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=196

10%

66%

T6-9

14%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 8 · max 16

Cast same turn as drawn 32%

The "good card" funnel

1629 brought · 607 players

Brought to game

1629

Ever drawn

422

Reached battlefield

196

Still on board at game end

≥ +7.6pp

Players who cast this card win 41% of the time (n=193) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=1081).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 30% (n=209).

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 +14.5pp; 95% confidence interval +7.6pp to +21.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

467 instances

3.2%

Library

2.4%

Battlefield

49.0%

Graveyard

7.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Urza, Lord High Artificer 70 decks
2 Zndrsplt, Eye of Wisdom 41 decks
3 Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy 32 decks
4 Shorikai, Genesis Engine 29 decks
5 Tony Stark // The Invincible Iron Man 20 decks
6 Tivit, Seller of Secrets 19 decks
7 Breya, Etherium Shaper 18 decks
8 Okaun, Eye of Chaos 18 decks
9 Vraska, Soul of Stone 18 decks
10 Inspirit, Flagship Vessel 15 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 780,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.