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Cycle of Renewal

· Instant — Lesson · Avatar: The Last Airbender (TLA)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

305

Decks Running

155

In Decks

1084

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Cycle of Renewal

Instant — Lesson

Sacrifice a land. Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Avatar: The Last Airbender (TLA) · Common · Illustrated by Jocelin Carmes

Final zone distribution

103 instances

1.9%

Library

1.0%

Battlefield

63.1%

Graveyard

15.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Avatar Aang // Aang, Master of Elements 27 decks
2 Toph, the First Metalbender 24 decks
3 Iroh, Grand Lotus 16 decks
4 Toph, Earthbending Master 11 decks
5 Tifa Lockhart 6 decks
6 Bumi, Unleashed 5 decks
7 Katara, the Fearless 5 decks
8 Toph, Hardheaded Teacher 5 decks
9 Aang and Katara 3 decks
10 Aang, at the Crossroads // Aang, Destined Savior 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

305 brought · 140 players

Brought to game

305

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -3.4pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=63) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=179).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 20% (n=19) — 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 +8.8pp; 95% confidence interval -3.4pp to +20.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=67

12%

21%

16%

28%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 4 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 21

On curve 34% (14 / 67 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 30%

67 of 100 times cast 67%

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.