Live Play Data

Origin of Metalbending

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1530

Decks Running

645

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

59%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=221

10%

14%

52%

T6-9

14%

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 18

On curve 4% (6 / 221 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 29%

The "good card" funnel

1530 brought · 542 players

Brought to game

1530

Ever drawn

374

Reached battlefield

221

Still on board at game end

≥ +0.7pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=206) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=964).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 29% (n=141).

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 +7.0pp; 95% confidence interval +0.7pp to +13.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

421 instances

4.0%

Library

2.6%

Battlefield

54.2%

Graveyard

10.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Toph, the First Metalbender 107 decks
2 Avatar Aang // Aang, Master of Elements 79 decks
3 Iroh, Grand Lotus 56 decks
4 Katara, the Fearless 19 decks
5 Toph, Earthbending Master 18 decks
6 Bruce Banner // The Incredible Hulk 16 decks
7 Tifa Lockhart 15 decks
8 Dionus, Elvish Archdruid 14 decks
9 Toph, Hardheaded Teacher 14 decks
10 Pako, Arcane Retriever 13 decks

Card text

Origin of Metalbending

Instant — Lesson

Choose one — • Destroy target artifact or enchantment. • Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. It gains indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

Avatar: The Last Airbender (TLA) · Common · Illustrated by Pauline Voss

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.