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Cycle of Renewal

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

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Times Brought

465

Decks Running

252

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

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

104 instances

4.8%

Library

1.0%

Battlefield

58.7%

Graveyard

7.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Toph, the First Metalbender 44 decks
2 Avatar Aang // Aang, Master of Elements 39 decks
3 Toph, Earthbending Master 15 decks
4 Iroh, Grand Lotus 14 decks
5 Tifa Lockhart 12 decks
6 Bumi, Unleashed 7 decks
7 Hearthhull, the Worldseed 7 decks
8 Katara, the Fearless 7 decks
9 Toph, Greatest Earthbender 6 decks
10 Homer, the Hermit 4 decks

The "good card" funnel

466 brought · 232 players

Brought to game

466

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -4.8pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=46) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=269).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 30% (n=29).

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 +3.0pp; 95% confidence interval -4.8pp to +10.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=59

15%

10%

14%

42%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 15

On curve 29% (6 / 59 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 38%

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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.