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Zuko's Exile

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

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Times Brought

180

Decks Running

102

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.

Card text

Zuko's Exile

Instant — Lesson

Exile target artifact, creature, or enchantment. Its controller creates a Clue token. (It's an artifact with " {2}

, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")

Avatar: The Last Airbender (TLA) · Common · Illustrated by Eiji Kaneda

Final zone distribution

40 instances

7.5%

Battlefield

45.0%

Graveyard

5.0%

Exile

42.5%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Iroh, Grand Lotus 11 decks
2 Fire Lord Azula 6 decks
3 Molecule Man 6 decks
4 The Walls of Ba Sing Se 6 decks
5 Avatar Aang // Aang, Master of Elements 5 decks
6 The Scarlet Witch 5 decks
7 Toph, the First Metalbender 5 decks
8 Ultima, Origin of Oblivion 5 decks
9 Toph, Hardheaded Teacher 3 decks
10 Ultron, Artificial Malevolence 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

180 brought · 90 players

Brought to game

180

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ +6.5pp

Players who cast this card win 38% of the time (n=17) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=109).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 20% (n=15).

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 +17.8pp; 95% confidence interval +6.5pp to +29.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=21

10%

14%

67%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 13

On curve 29% (3 / 21 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 43%

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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.