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Ba Sing Se

Land · Avatar: The Last Airbender (TLA)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

417

Decks Running

203

In Decks

1363

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Ba Sing Se

Land

This land enters tapped unless you control a basic land. {T}

: Add

: Earthbend 2. Activate only as a sorcery. (Target land you control becomes a 0/0 creature with haste that's still a land. Put two +1/+1 counters on it. When it dies or is exiled, return it to the battlefield tapped.)

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

Final zone distribution

113 instances

0.9%

Library

64.6%

Battlefield

13.3%

Graveyard

7.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Toph, the First Metalbender 45 decks
2 Avatar Aang // Aang, Master of Elements 28 decks
3 Katara, the Fearless 12 decks
4 Toph, Earthbending Master 10 decks
5 Hearthhull, the Worldseed 9 decks
6 Bumi, Unleashed 7 decks
7 Toph, Hardheaded Teacher 7 decks
8 Witherbloom, the Balancer 6 decks
9 Avatar Kyoshi, Earthbender 3 decks
10 Byrke, Long Ear of the Law 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

417 brought · 181 players

Brought to game

417

Ever drawn

100

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 91% 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.

≥ -8.8pp

Players who cast this card win 24% of the time (n=73) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=265).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=15) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +1.4pp; 95% confidence interval -8.8pp to +11.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=80

16%

11%

39%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 8 · max 18

Cast same turn as drawn 50%

80 of 100 times cast 80%

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 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.