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

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

1226

Decks Running

575

In Decks

3361

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

Final zone distribution

294 instances

4.4%

Library

3.7%

Battlefield

45.6%

Graveyard

9.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Toph, the First Metalbender 25 decks
2 Fire Lord Azula 23 decks
3 Avatar Aang // Aang, Master of Elements 22 decks
4 Fire Lord Zuko 16 decks
5 Iroh, Grand Lotus 16 decks
6 Krenko, Mob Boss 16 decks
7 Kratos, God of War 14 decks
8 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 11 decks
9 Thor, God of Thunder 10 decks
10 Magda, Brazen Outlaw 9 decks

The "good card" funnel

1229 brought · 452 players

Brought to game

1229

Ever drawn

257

Reached battlefield

123

Still on board at game end

≥ -2.8pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=111) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=816).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 29% (n=119) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +6.2pp; 95% confidence interval -2.8pp to +15.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=123

12%

13%

61%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 13

On curve 0% (0 / 123 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 16%

1135 of 300 tracked games 99%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.