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Heartless Act

· Instant · Avatar: The Last Airbender (TLA)

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Times Brought

235

Decks Running

109

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

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

Final zone distribution

52 instances

3.8%

Library

1.9%

Battlefield

61.5%

Graveyard

5.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Fire Lord Azula 18 decks
2 Avatar Aang // Aang, Master of Elements 14 decks
3 Ozai, the Phoenix King 4 decks
4 Umbris, Fear Manifest 3 decks
5 Auntie Ool, Cursewretch 2 decks
6 Azula, Cunning Usurper 2 decks
7 Loot, the Anomaly 2 decks
8 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 2 decks
9 The Great Goblin 2 decks
10 Vincent Valentine // Galian Beast 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

235 brought · 105 players

Brought to game

235

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -17.4pp

Players who cast this card win 16% of the time (n=25) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=133).

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 -7.1pp; 95% confidence interval -17.4pp to +3.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=33

18%

15%

12%

33%

T6-9

18%

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 3% (1 / 33 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 24%

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.