Live Play Data

Heartless Act

· Instant · Avatar: The Last Airbender (TLA)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

372

Decks Running

161

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

71%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=48

10%

13%

46%

T6-9

19%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 13

On curve 6% (3 / 48 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 29%

The "good card" funnel

372 brought · 155 players

Brought to game

372

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -14.4pp

Players who cast this card win 13% of the time (n=44) , vs 18% when it never left the library (n=246).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 10% (n=17).

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 -4.7pp; 95% confidence interval -14.4pp to +5.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

78 instances

5.1%

Library

2.6%

Battlefield

57.7%

Graveyard

14.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Fire Lord Azula 18 decks
2 Avatar Aang // Aang, Master of Elements 17 decks
3 Child of Alara 10 decks
4 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 6 decks
5 Ozai, the Phoenix King 5 decks
6 Fire Lord Zuko 4 decks
7 Jon Irenicus, Shattered One 3 decks
8 Kraven the Hunter 3 decks
9 The Beamtown Bullies 3 decks
10 Toshiro Umezawa 3 decks

Card text

Heartless Act

Instant

Choose one — • Destroy target creature with no counters on it. • Remove up to three counters from target creature.

Avatar: The Last Airbender (TLA) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Sylvain Sarrailh

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 750,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.