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Airbender Ascension

· Enchantment · Avatar: The Last Airbender (TLA)

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Times Brought

154

Decks Running

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

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

Final zone distribution

32 instances

3.1%

Library

65.6%

Battlefield

3.1%

Graveyard

28.1%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Avatar Aang // Aang, Master of Elements 29 decks
2 Katara, the Fearless 10 decks
3 Aang, at the Crossroads // Aang, Destined Savior 3 decks
4 Appa, Steadfast Guardian 3 decks
5 Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines 3 decks
6 Hei Bai, Forest Guardian 3 decks
7 Fire Lord Zuko 2 decks
8 Hei Bai, Spirit of Balance 2 decks
9 Sokka, Tenacious Tactician 2 decks
10 Toph, the First Metalbender 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

154 brought · 91 players

Brought to game

154

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 95% 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.

≥ -8.0pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=19) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=92).

Observed gap +4.5pp; 95% confidence interval -8.0pp to +16.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=22

23%

18%

36%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 13

On curve 5% (1 / 22 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 14%

22 of 100 times cast 22%

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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.