Live Play Data

South Wind Avatar

· Creature — Snake Spirit Avatar · Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMT)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

547

Decks Running

233

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

76%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=106

12%

15%

51%

T6-9

15%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 16

On curve 19% (13 / 106 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

The "good card" funnel

547 brought · 213 players

Brought to game

547

Ever drawn

139

Reached battlefield

106

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 54% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.

≥ +0.9pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=95) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=329).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 13% (n=29).

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 +10.6pp; 95% confidence interval +0.9pp to +20.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

156 instances

3.8%

Library

36.5%

Battlefield

31.4%

Graveyard

9.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Blech, Loafing Pest 50 decks
2 The Serpent Society 25 decks
3 Dina, Essence Brewer 11 decks
4 Teysa Karlov 10 decks
5 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 9 decks
6 Dina, Soul Steeper 5 decks
7 Exdeath, Void Warlock // Neo Exdeath, Dimension's End 5 decks
8 Oloro, Ageless Ascetic 5 decks
9 Felothar the Steadfast 4 decks
10 Karlov of the Ghost Council 4 decks

Card text

South Wind Avatar

Creature — Snake Spirit Avatar

Deathtouch Whenever another creature you control dies, you gain life equal to its toughness. Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMT) · Rare · Illustrated by InHyuk Lee

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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.