Live Play Data

Redirect Lightning

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

3562

Decks Running

1538

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

47%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=358

17%

57%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 1% (4 / 358 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 21%

The "good card" funnel

3566 brought · 1119 players

Brought to game

3566

Ever drawn

758

Reached battlefield

358

Still on board at game end

≥ +2.1pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=323) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=2301).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 30% (n=356).

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 +7.3pp; 95% confidence interval +2.1pp to +12.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

873 instances

4.8%

Library

4.6%

Battlefield

42.4%

Graveyard

10.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Toph, the First Metalbender 66 decks
2 Fire Lord Azula 65 decks
3 Avatar Aang // Aang, Master of Elements 61 decks
4 Kratos, God of War 49 decks
5 Iroh, Grand Lotus 38 decks
6 Raph & Mikey, Troublemakers 38 decks
7 Smaug the Impenetrable 38 decks
8 Krenko, Mob Boss 37 decks
9 Fire Lord Zuko 28 decks
10 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 28 decks

Card text

Redirect Lightning

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.