Live Play Data

Bender's Waterskin

· Artifact · Avatar: The Last Airbender (TLA)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

4595

Decks Running

1957

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

71%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=863

26%

15%

13%

35%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 34

On curve 29% (222 / 863 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 38%

The "good card" funnel

4595 brought · 1442 players

Brought to game

4595

Ever drawn

1219

Reached battlefield

863

Still on board at game end

719

Once cast, 83% 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.

≥ +1.8pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=781) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=2867).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 33% (n=319).

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 +5.2pp; 95% confidence interval +1.8pp to +8.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

1330 instances

3.2%

Library

54.1%

Battlefield

16.4%

Graveyard

4.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 120 decks
2 Avatar Aang // Aang, Master of Elements 102 decks
3 Toph, the First Metalbender 69 decks
4 Lorehold, the Historian 55 decks
5 Alela, Cunning Conqueror 46 decks
6 Katara, the Fearless 39 decks
7 Fire Lord Azula 37 decks
8 Ozai, the Phoenix King 28 decks
9 Whtz, the Bibliophile 25 decks
10 Iroh, Grand Lotus 23 decks

Card text

Bender's Waterskin

Artifact

Untap this artifact during each other player's untap step. {T}

: Add one mana of any color.

Avatar: The Last Airbender (TLA) · Common · Illustrated by Dee Nguyen

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 780,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.