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Mystical Teachings

· Instant · Foundations (FDN)

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Times Brought

140

Decks Running

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

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

Final zone distribution

37 instances

10.8%

Battlefield

35.1%

Graveyard

21.6%

Exile

32.4%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Fire Lord Azula 42 decks
2 Sauron, the Dark Lord 3 decks
3 Alela, Cunning Conqueror 2 decks
4 Avatar Aang // Aang, Master of Elements 2 decks
5 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 2 decks
6 Anhelo, the Painter 1 decks
7 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice 1 decks
8 Be'lakor, the Dark Master 1 decks
9 Cormela, Glamour Thief 1 decks
10 Kang, Temporal Tyrant 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

140 brought · 60 players

Brought to game

140

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -0.6pp

Players who cast this card win 37% of the time (n=15) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=70).

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 +12.4pp; 95% confidence interval -0.6pp to +25.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

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.