Live Play Data

Mystical Teachings

· Instant · Foundations (FDN)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

143

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

59%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=20

20%

65%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 7 · max 16

On curve 10% (1 / 20 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 20%

The "good card" funnel

143 brought · 61 players

Brought to game

143

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -2.2pp

Players who cast this card win 50% of the time (n=18) , vs 29% when it never left the library (n=96).

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 +21.1pp; 95% confidence interval -2.2pp to +44.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

38 instances

2.6%

Library

2.6%

Battlefield

60.5%

Graveyard

7.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Fire Lord Azula 39 decks
2 Sauron, the Dark Lord 7 decks
3 Avatar Aang // Aang, Master of Elements 3 decks
4 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 2 decks
5 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice 1 decks
6 Be'lakor, the Dark Master 1 decks
7 Chromium, the Mutable 1 decks
8 Emet-Selch of the Third Seat 1 decks
9 Glarb, Calamity's Augur 1 decks
10 Maralen, Fae Ascendant 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 710,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.