Live Play Data

Whirler Virtuoso

· Creature — Vedalken Artificer · Kaladesh (KLD)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

259

Decks Running

121

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

73%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=53

19%

38%

T6-9

17%

T10+

Median 6 P25 3 · P75 9 · max 18

On curve 28% (10 / 53 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 23%

The "good card" funnel

260 brought · 114 players

Brought to game

260

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 38% 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.

≥ -6.1pp

Players who cast this card win 22% of the time (n=49) , vs 17% when it never left the library (n=163).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 11% (n=16).

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 +5.9pp; 95% confidence interval -6.1pp to +17.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

77 instances

3.9%

Library

26.0%

Battlefield

36.4%

Graveyard

13.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Satya, Aetherflux Genius 53 decks
2 Saheeli, Radiant Creator 49 decks
3 Dr. Madison Li 8 decks
4 Pia Nalaar, Chief Mechanic 4 decks
5 Liberty Prime, Recharged 3 decks
6 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 1 decks
7 Muddle, the Ever-Changing 1 decks
8 Niv-Mizzet, Visionary 1 decks
9 Omnath, Locus of Creation 1 decks

Card text

Whirler Virtuoso

Creature — Vedalken Artificer

When this creature enters, you get {E}

(three energy counters). Pay {E}

: Create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying.

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Kaladesh (KLD) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Lake Hurwitz

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.