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Whir of Invention

· Instant · Aether Revolt (AER)

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Times Brought

954

Decks Running

432

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

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

218 instances

6.4%

Library

3.7%

Battlefield

42.7%

Graveyard

5.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Urza, Lord High Artificer 63 decks
2 Zndrsplt, Eye of Wisdom 33 decks
3 Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy 30 decks
4 Okaun, Eye of Chaos 16 decks
5 Tony Stark // The Invincible Iron Man 15 decks
6 Breya, Etherium Shaper 12 decks
7 Iron Man, Titan of Innovation 11 decks
8 Whtz, the Bibliophile 11 decks
9 Shorikai, Genesis Engine 10 decks
10 Emry, Lurker of the Loch 9 decks

The "good card" funnel

969 brought · 389 players

Brought to game

969

Ever drawn

202

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -1.5pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=83) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=605).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=102).

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 +4.3pp; 95% confidence interval -1.5pp to +10.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=85

14%

55%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 28

Cast same turn as drawn 31%

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.