Bastion of Remembrance
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Enchantment
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Avatar: The Last Airbender Eternal (TLE)
77% of drawn Bastion of Remembrance copies are cast before the game ends, and the card sits in 8% of tracked Commander decks across 551 games on Playgroup Live.
Bastion of Remembrance resolves in nearly four out of five games where players draw it. Across 551 tracked multiplayer Commander games, 77% of drawn copies reached the battlefield, a strong signal that players prioritize casting it whenever they find it.
The card fits a tightly defined role: black creature-sacrifice strategies want a repeatable drain effect that also replaces itself with a token on entry. At 3 mana, it lands on curve in a wide range of decks. The median first-cast turn sits at 6.0, consistent with a mid-game setup piece rather than an early accelerant. Once it resolves, 78% of cast copies survive through the end of the game, suggesting opponents rarely spend removal on an enchantment that is already doing its work quietly.
The commander spread is broad. Y'shtola, Hazel of the Rootbloom, Caesar, Chatterfang, and Teysa Karlov all appear near the top of the list, reflecting how naturally Bastion slots into any black shell that generates creature death. The data comes from 285 distinct players, and no single contributor accounts for more than a small fraction of tracked games, which lends the early trends reasonable credibility for a dataset of this size.
- 8% of tracked Commander decks include Bastion of Remembrance
- 77% of drawn copies are cast before the game ends
- T6.0 median first-cast turn, right on its mana cost
- 78% of cast copies survive through end of game
- 285 distinct players have brought this card to a tracked game
- 26% draw rate per game, typical for a singleton in a 100-card deck
First-cast turn
n=116The "good card" funnel
590 brought · 285 playersOf 590 Bastions brought to games, 151 were drawn, 116 of those were cast, and 78% of cast copies were still in play at game's end.
Players who cast this card win 36% of the time (n=113) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=387).
When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 15% (n=34) — 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 +10.2pp; 95% confidence interval +1.4pp to +19.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
Final zone distribution
162 instancesMost Bastions that were brought to a game and observed end up on the battlefield at game's end, a testament to how rarely opponents answer an enchantment that drains incrementally rather than ending the game on the spot.
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
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Y'shtola, Night's Blessed
34 decks
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2
Hazel of the Rootbloom
22 decks
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3
Chatterfang, Squirrel General
19 decks
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4
Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls
17 decks
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5
Caesar, Legion's Emperor
16 decks
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6
Teysa Karlov
14 decks
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7
Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel
12 decks
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8
Zurgo Stormrender
12 decks
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9
Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver
7 decks
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10
Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
6 decks
The commander list spans aristocrats, tokens, and sacrifice engines across at least five distinct color combinations, showing Bastion is a format-wide pickup rather than a build-around for one archetype.