Live Play Data

Heartless Act

· Instant · Avatar: The Last Airbender (TLA)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

487

Decks Running

197

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

75%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=75

53%

T6-9

23%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 15

On curve 4% (3 / 75 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 27%

The "good card" funnel

487 brought · 190 players

Brought to game

487

Ever drawn

100

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -8.9pp

Players who cast this card win 17% of the time (n=71) , vs 17% when it never left the library (n=339).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 18% (n=24).

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 +-0.0pp; 95% confidence interval -8.9pp to +8.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

113 instances

3.5%

Library

3.5%

Battlefield

60.2%

Graveyard

14.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Avatar Aang // Aang, Master of Elements 21 decks
2 Fire Lord Azula 21 decks
3 Child of Alara 11 decks
4 Ozai, the Phoenix King 6 decks
5 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 6 decks
6 Fire Lord Zuko 5 decks
7 Jon Irenicus, Shattered One 5 decks
8 Toshiro Umezawa 5 decks
9 Seven of Nine 4 decks
10 Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow 4 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 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.