Live Play Data

True Ancestry

· Sorcery — Lesson · Avatar: The Last Airbender (TLA)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

174

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

7.5

Drawn → Played

47%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=22

14%

68%

T6-9

14%

T10+

Median 7.5 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 15

On curve 0% (0 / 22 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 24%

The "good card" funnel

174 brought · 85 players

Brought to game

174

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -9.4pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=20) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=95).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 21% (n=21).

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 +12.0pp; 95% confidence interval -9.4pp to +33.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

54 instances

5.6%

Library

1.9%

Battlefield

40.7%

Graveyard

16.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Iroh, Grand Lotus 30 decks
2 Avatar Aang // Aang, Master of Elements 12 decks
3 Toph, the First Metalbender 10 decks
4 Katara, the Fearless 5 decks
5 Toph, Hardheaded Teacher 5 decks
6 Toph, Earthbending Master 4 decks
7 Maralen, Fae Ascendant 3 decks
8 The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl 3 decks
9 Raph & Mikey, Troublemakers 2 decks
10 The Earth King 2 decks

Card text

True Ancestry

Sorcery — Lesson

Return up to one target permanent card from your graveyard to your hand. Create a Clue token. (It's an artifact with " {2}

, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")

Avatar: The Last Airbender (TLA) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Chibi

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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.