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Origin of Metalbending

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

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Times Brought

836

Decks Running

387

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.

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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

Final zone distribution

170 instances

3.5%

Library

1.8%

Battlefield

57.6%

Graveyard

6.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Toph, the First Metalbender 64 decks
2 Avatar Aang // Aang, Master of Elements 56 decks
3 Iroh, Grand Lotus 31 decks
4 Katara, the Fearless 16 decks
5 Pako, Arcane Retriever 11 decks
6 Tifa Lockhart 10 decks
7 Bruce Banner // The Incredible Hulk 8 decks
8 Bumi, Unleashed 8 decks
9 Toph, Earthbending Master 8 decks
10 The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl 7 decks

The "good card" funnel

837 brought · 345 players

Brought to game

837

Ever drawn

160

Reached battlefield

102

Still on board at game end

≥ -7.4pp

Players who cast this card win 24% of the time (n=77) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=468).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 27% (n=43).

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 -1.3pp; 95% confidence interval -7.4pp to +4.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=102

19%

16%

45%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 13

On curve 6% (3 / 102 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 28%

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.