Live Play Data

Redirect Lightning

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1226

Decks Running

575

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

48%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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%

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).

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 +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.

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

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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.