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The Earth King

· Legendary Creature — Human Noble Ally · Avatar: The Last Airbender (TLA)

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Times Brought

651

Decks Running

301

In Decks

—

Decklist Inclusion

—

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

Card text

The Earth King

Legendary Creature — Human Noble Ally

When The Earth King enters, create a 4/4 green Bear creature token. Whenever one or more creatures you control with power 4 or greater attack, search your library for up to that many basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

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Avatar: The Last Airbender (TLA) · Rare · Illustrated by Ryota Murayama

Final zone distribution

148 instances

1.4%

Library

48.0%

Battlefield

20.3%

Graveyard

4.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Beorn the Fierce 51 decks
2 Avatar Aang // Aang, Master of Elements 29 decks
3 Toph, the First Metalbender 22 decks
4 Katara, the Fearless 21 decks
5 Ayula, Queen Among Bears 17 decks
6 Bello, Bard of the Brambles 13 decks
7 Bumi, Unleashed 12 decks
8 Ghalta, Primal Hunger 12 decks
9 Toph, Earthbending Master 12 decks
10 Radagast of Rhosgobel 9 decks

The "good card" funnel

651 brought · 273 players

Brought to game

651

Ever drawn

139

Reached battlefield

101

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 70% 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.

≥ -1.5pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=80) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=351).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 33% (n=27).

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 +4.5pp; 95% confidence interval -1.5pp to +10.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=119

11%

14%

23%

15%

33%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 14

On curve 48% (27 / 119 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 26%

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.