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Live Play Data

Balan, Wandering Knight

{2} {W} {W} · Legendary Creature — Cat Knight · Commander Masters (CMM)
0%
Live Inclusion
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Times Brought
256
Decks Running
107
Median Cast Turn
5.0
Drawn → Played
47%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=60
0%
T1
5%
T2
3%
T3
28%
T4
22%
T5
32%
T6-9
10%
T10+
Median 5.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 12
On curve 37% (17 / 60 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 42%

The "good card" funnel

256 brought · 106 players
Brought to game
256
Ever drawn
57
Reached battlefield
27
Still on board at game end
11

Once cast, 41% 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.

≥ -23.2pp

Players who cast this card win 17% of the time (n=26) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=166).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 22% (n=28).

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 -9.4pp; 95% confidence interval -23.2pp to +4.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

64 instances
7.8%
Library
17.2%
Battlefield
25.0%
Graveyard
12.5%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Balan, Wandering Knight card

Balan, Wandering Knight

{2} {W} {W}
Legendary Creature — Cat Knight
First strike Balan has double strike as long as two or more Equipment are attached to it. {1}{W}: Attach all Equipment you control to Balan.
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Commander Masters (CMM) · Rare · Illustrated by Svetlin Velinov

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 780,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.