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Live Play Data

Redirect Lightning

{R} · Instant — Lesson · Avatar: The Last Airbender (TLA)
7%
Live Inclusion
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Times Brought
4757
Decks Running
1934
Median Cast Turn
7.0
Drawn → Played
48%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=494
1%
T1
1%
T2
4%
T3
9%
T4
16%
T5
57%
T6-9
12%
T10+
Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 16
On curve 1% (6 / 494 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 23%

The "good card" funnel

4761 brought · 1371 players
Brought to game
4761
Ever drawn
1037
Reached battlefield
494
Still on board at game end
51
≥ +0.6pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=446) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=3091).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 31% (n=477).

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 +5.0pp; 95% confidence interval +0.6pp to +9.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

1193 instances
4.1%
Library
4.3%
Battlefield
43.0%
Graveyard
9.8%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Redirect Lightning card

Redirect Lightning

{R}
Instant — Lesson
As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay 5 life or pay {2}. Change the target of target spell or ability with a single target.
Avatar: The Last Airbender (TLA) · Rare · Illustrated by Toni Infante

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.