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Talion, the Kindly Lord

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

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Times Brought

256

Decks Running

142

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

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.

3 / 4

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

Final zone distribution

55 instances

3.6%

Library

23.6%

Battlefield

36.4%

Graveyard

14.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

260 brought · 136 players

Brought to game

260

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 39% 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.

≥ -9.4pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=27) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=139).

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 +0.9pp; 95% confidence interval -9.4pp to +11.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=49

10%

24%

16%

24%

T6-9

14%

T10+

Median 5 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 12

On curve 45% (12 / 49 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 34%

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.