Live Play Data

Airbender Ascension

· Enchantment · Avatar: The Last Airbender (TLA)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

525

Decks Running

251

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

63%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=72

14%

15%

47%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 15

On curve 4% (3 / 72 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 36%

The "good card" funnel

526 brought · 220 players

Brought to game

526

Ever drawn

114

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 78% 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.

≥ +6.3pp

Players who cast this card win 41% of the time (n=64) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=337).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 32% (n=37).

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 +18.5pp; 95% confidence interval +6.3pp to +30.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

123 instances

5.7%

Library

45.5%

Battlefield

19.5%

Graveyard

2.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Avatar Aang // Aang, Master of Elements 60 decks
2 Katara, the Fearless 18 decks
3 Hei Bai, Forest Guardian 14 decks
4 The Sentry, Golden Guardian 10 decks
5 Fire Lord Zuko 9 decks
6 Aang, at the Crossroads // Aang, Destined Savior 7 decks
7 Appa, Steadfast Guardian 6 decks
8 Niko, Light of Hope 5 decks
9 Abigale, Eloquent First-Year 4 decks
10 Zidane, Tantalus Thief 4 decks

Card text

Airbender Ascension

Enchantment

When this enchantment enters, airbend up to one target creature. Whenever a creature you control enters, put a quest counter on this enchantment. At the beginning of your end step, if this enchantment has four or more quest counters on it, exile up to one target creature you control, then return it to the battlefield under its owner's control.

Avatar: The Last Airbender (TLA) · Rare · Illustrated by Shiren

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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.