Live Play Data

Mystical Teachings

· Instant · Foundations (FDN)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

213

Decks Running

103

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

65%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=33

76%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 6 · P75 7 · max 16

On curve 12% (3 / 33 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 31%

The "good card" funnel

213 brought · 96 players

Brought to game

213

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ +9.3pp

Players who cast this card win 54% of the time (n=30) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=136).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 17% (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 +27.1pp; 95% confidence interval +9.3pp to +44.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

58 instances

1.7%

Library

3.4%

Battlefield

60.3%

Graveyard

13.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Fire Lord Azula 63 decks
2 Sauron, the Dark Lord 10 decks
3 Avatar Aang // Aang, Master of Elements 3 decks
4 Cormela, Glamour Thief 2 decks
5 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 2 decks
6 Arzakon 1 decks
7 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice 1 decks
8 Be'lakor, the Dark Master 1 decks
9 Breya, Etherium Shaper 1 decks
10 Chromium, the Mutable 1 decks

Card text

Mystical Teachings

Instant

Search your library for an instant card or a card with flash, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Flashback {5}

(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Foundations (FDN) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Ron Spears

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.