Live Play Data

Talion, the Kindly Lord

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

494

Decks Running

221

Median Cast Turn

4.0

Drawn → Played

60%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=136

18%

26%

12%

28%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 13

On curve 54% (36 / 136 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 37%

The "good card" funnel

494 brought · 203 players

Brought to game

494

Ever drawn

151

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 53% 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.

≥ +4.3pp

Players who cast this card win 38% of the time (n=80) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=283).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 29% (n=57).

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 +15.4pp; 95% confidence interval +4.3pp to +26.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

169 instances

3.6%

Library

28.4%

Battlefield

27.8%

Graveyard

11.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

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

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.