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Appa, Steadfast Guardian

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

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Times Brought

162

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

Appa, Steadfast Guardian

Legendary Creature — Bison Ally

Flash Flying When Appa enters, airbend any number of other target nonland permanents you control. (Exile them. While each one is exiled, its owner may cast it for {2}

rather than its mana cost.) Whenever you cast a spell from exile, create a 1/1 white Ally creature token.

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Avatar: The Last Airbender (TLA) · Mythic · Illustrated by Maël Ollivier-Henry

Final zone distribution

37 instances

2.7%

Library

35.1%

Battlefield

5.4%

Graveyard

16.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Avatar Aang // Aang, Master of Elements 33 decks
2 Katara, the Fearless 14 decks
3 Fire Lord Zuko 5 decks
4 Appa, Steadfast Guardian 3 decks
5 Aang, at the Crossroads // Aang, Destined Savior 2 decks
6 Bre of Clan Stoutarm 2 decks
7 Kellan, the Kid 2 decks
8 Toph, the First Metalbender 2 decks
9 Black Panther, Wakandan King 1 decks
10 Djeru and Hazoret 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

162 brought · 77 players

Brought to game

162

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -4.9pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=15) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=100).

Observed gap +8.2pp; 95% confidence interval -4.9pp to +21.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

19 of 100 times cast 19%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

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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.