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Wan Shi Tong, Librarian

· Legendary Creature — Bird Spirit · Avatar: The Last Airbender (TLA)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

514

Decks Running

271

In Decks

1724

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Wan Shi Tong, Librarian

Legendary Creature — Bird Spirit

Flash Flying, vigilance When Wan Shi Tong enters, put X +1/+1 counters on him. Then draw half X cards, rounded down. Whenever an opponent searches their library, put a +1/+1 counter on Wan Shi Tong and draw a card.

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

Final zone distribution

144 instances

4.2%

Library

24.3%

Battlefield

25.0%

Graveyard

9.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Zimone, Infinite Analyst 21 decks
2 Fire Lord Azula 16 decks
3 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 14 decks
4 Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy 12 decks
5 Sonic the Hedgehog 11 decks
6 Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima 9 decks
7 Choco, Seeker of Paradise 8 decks
8 Avatar Aang // Aang, Master of Elements 7 decks
9 Animar, Soul of Elements 6 decks
10 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 6 decks

The "good card" funnel

514 brought · 243 players

Brought to game

514

Ever drawn

125

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 57% 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.

≥ -2.8pp

Players who cast this card win 36% of the time (n=58) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=332).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 43% (n=61) — 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 +9.4pp; 95% confidence interval -2.8pp to +21.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=60

22%

10%

47%

T6-9

12%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 19

Cast same turn as drawn 31%

60 of 100 times cast 60%

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.