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

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Times Brought

316

Decks Running

154

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.

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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.

3 / 4

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

Final zone distribution

74 instances

44.6%

Battlefield

18.9%

Graveyard

9.5%

Exile

27.0%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Blech, Loafing Pest 34 decks
2 The Serpent Society 16 decks
3 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 9 decks
4 Dina, Essence Brewer 5 decks
5 Karlov of the Ghost Council 5 decks
6 Dark Leo & Shredder 4 decks
7 Niv-Mizzet, Ghost Counsel 4 decks
8 Shredder, Shadow Master 4 decks
9 Teysa Karlov 4 decks
10 Aphelia, Viper Whisperer 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

316 brought · 150 players

Brought to game

316

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 65% 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.

≥ -14.4pp

Players who cast this card win 21% of the time (n=41) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=169).

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 -6.0pp; 95% confidence interval -14.4pp to +2.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=51

24%

39%

T6-9

14%

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 17

On curve 24% (4 / 51 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 40%

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.