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Talion, the Kindly Lord

· Legendary Creature — Faerie Noble · Wilds of Eldraine (WOE)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

211

Decks Running

107

In Decks

961

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Talion, the Kindly Lord

Legendary Creature — Faerie Noble

Flying As Talion enters, choose a number between 1 and 10. Whenever an opponent casts a spell with mana value, power, or toughness equal to the chosen number, that player loses 2 life and you draw a card.

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Wilds of Eldraine (WOE) · Mythic · Illustrated by Justyna Dura

Final zone distribution

84 instances

3.6%

Library

35.7%

Battlefield

26.2%

Graveyard

7.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 23 decks
2 Alela, Cunning Conqueror 20 decks
3 Maralen, Fae Ascendant 18 decks
4 Talion, the Kindly Lord 6 decks
5 Sauron, the Dark Lord 4 decks
6 Alela, Artful Provocateur 2 decks
7 Aminatou, Veil Piercer 2 decks
8 Hashaton, Scarab's Fist 2 decks
9 Jodah, the Unifier 2 decks
10 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

211 brought · 103 players

Brought to game

211

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 58% 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.

≥ -14.1pp

Players who cast this card win 23% of the time (n=31) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=108).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 24% (n=23) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +1.2pp; 95% confidence interval -14.1pp to +16.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=36

11%

31%

14%

39%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 11

On curve 42% (11 / 36 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 37%

36 of 100 times cast 36%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.