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Redirect Lightning

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

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Times Brought

2462

Decks Running

1176

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.

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

475 instances

2.5%

Library

3.4%

Battlefield

34.1%

Graveyard

4.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Fire Lord Azula 70 decks
2 Toph, the First Metalbender 57 decks
3 Avatar Aang // Aang, Master of Elements 45 decks
4 Vivi Ornitier 39 decks
5 Raph & Mikey, Troublemakers 37 decks
6 Kratos, God of War 35 decks
7 Krenko, Mob Boss 33 decks
8 Fire Lord Zuko 27 decks
9 Smaug the Impenetrable 25 decks
10 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 24 decks

The "good card" funnel

2463 brought · 908 players

Brought to game

2463

Ever drawn

445

Reached battlefield

153

Still on board at game end

≥ -9.9pp

Players who cast this card win 21% of the time (n=117) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=1391).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 30% (n=224).

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 -5.2pp; 95% confidence interval -9.9pp to -0.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=153

12%

52%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 45

On curve 4% (6 / 153 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 22%

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.