Live Play Data

Appa, Loyal Sky Bison

· Legendary Creature — Bison Ally · Avatar: The Last Airbender (TLA)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

185

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

65%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=28

18%

50%

T6-9

21%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 17

On curve 36% (2 / 28 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 25%

The "good card" funnel

188 brought · 87 players

Brought to game

188

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 54% 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.

≥ -14.9pp

Players who cast this card win 18% of the time (n=25) , vs 17% when it never left the library (n=123).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 17% (n=15).

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 +0.9pp; 95% confidence interval -14.9pp to +16.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

49 instances

6.1%

Library

30.6%

Battlefield

28.6%

Graveyard

8.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Avatar Aang // Aang, Master of Elements 46 decks
2 Katara, the Fearless 13 decks
3 Fire Lord Zuko 6 decks
4 Appa, Steadfast Guardian 4 decks
5 Sokka, Tenacious Tactician 4 decks
6 Aang and Katara 2 decks
7 Aang, at the Crossroads // Aang, Destined Savior 2 decks
8 Kellan, the Kid 2 decks
9 Aang, Airbending Master 1 decks
10 Abigale, Eloquent First-Year 1 decks

Card text

Appa, Loyal Sky Bison

Legendary Creature — Bison Ally

Flying Whenever Appa enters or attacks, choose one — • Target creature you control gains flying until end of turn. • Airbend another target nonland permanent you control. (Exile it. While it's exiled, its owner may cast it for {2}

rather than its mana cost.)

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Avatar: The Last Airbender (TLA) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Tomoyo Asatani

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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.