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Redirect Lightning
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Instant — Lesson
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Avatar: The Last Airbender (TLA)
Times Brought
789
Decks Running
398
In Decks
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Decklist Inclusion
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Format
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 
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Change the target of target spell or ability with a single target.
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Change the target of target spell or ability with a single target.
Avatar: The Last Airbender (TLA)
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Rare
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Illustrated by Toni Infante
Final zone distribution
152 instances3.3%
Library
3.9%
Battlefield
33.6%
Graveyard
5.3%
Exile
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
Toph, the First Metalbender
25 decks
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2
Avatar Aang // Aang, Master of Elements
21 decks
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3
Fire Lord Azula
19 decks
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4
Krenko, Mob Boss
15 decks
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5
Vivi Ornitier
12 decks
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6
Raph & Mikey, Troublemakers
10 decks
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7
Kratos, God of War
9 decks
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8
Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied
9 decks
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9
Winota, Joiner of Forces
9 decks
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10
Fire Lord Zuko
7 decks
The "good card" funnel
790 brought · 335 playersBrought to game
790
Ever drawn
145
Reached battlefield
50
Still on board at game end
6
≥ -15.6pp
Players who cast this card win 19% of the time (n=40) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=469).
When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=71).
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 -7.7pp; 95% confidence interval -15.6pp to +0.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
First-cast turn
n=50
2%
T1
0%
T2
4%
T3
12%
T4
14%
T5
64%
T6-9
4%
T10+
Median
6.0
P25
5
· P75
7
· max
17
On curve
2%
(1 / 50 cast on T1)
Cast same turn as drawn
18%
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.