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The Unagi of Kyoshi Island
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Legendary Creature — Serpent
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Avatar: The Last Airbender (TLA)
1%
Decklist Inclusion
Times Brought
289
Decks Running
143
In Decks
841
Decklist Inclusion
1%
Format
Card text
The Unagi of Kyoshi Island
Legendary Creature — Serpent
Flash
Ward—Waterbend 
. (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays . They can tap their artifacts and creatures to help. Each one pays for 
.)
Whenever an opponent draws their second card each turn, you draw two cards.
. (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays . They can tap their artifacts and creatures to help. Each one pays for .)
Whenever an opponent draws their second card each turn, you draw two cards.5 / 5
Avatar: The Last Airbender (TLA)
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Rare
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Illustrated by Miho Midorikawa
Final zone distribution
98 instances4.1%
Library
27.6%
Battlefield
27.6%
Graveyard
5.1%
Exile
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
Avatar Aang // Aang, Master of Elements
9 decks
-
2
Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy
8 decks
-
3
Kiora, Sovereign of the Deep
8 decks
-
4
Ms. Bumbleflower
8 decks
-
5
Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle
6 decks
-
6
Fire Lord Azula
5 decks
-
7
Kenessos, Priest of Thassa
4 decks
-
8
Kynaios and Tiro of Meletis
4 decks
-
9
Queza, Augur of Agonies
4 decks
-
10
Sonic the Hedgehog
4 decks
The "good card" funnel
289 brought · 135 playersBrought to game
289
Ever drawn
83
Reached battlefield
41
Still on board at game end
27
Once cast, 63% 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.
≥ +2.6pp
Players who cast this card win 45% of the time (n=37) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=170).
When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 33% (n=37) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.
Observed gap +18.4pp; 95% confidence interval +2.6pp to +34.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
First-cast turn
n=41
0%
T1
2%
T2
7%
T3
7%
T4
15%
T5
49%
T6-9
20%
T10+
Median
7
P25
5
· P75
8
· max
17
On curve
32%
(6 / 41 cast on T5)
Cast same turn as drawn
36%
41 of 100 times cast
41%
Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.
Frequently Asked
Why isn't there more data on this card?
Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.