Live Play Data

Teshar, Ancestor's Apostle

· Legendary Creature — Bird Cleric · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

253

Decks Running

146

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

53%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=37

11%

68%

T6-9

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 8 · max 12

On curve 14% (3 / 37 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 32%

The "good card" funnel

253 brought · 138 players

Brought to game

253

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 43% 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.

≥ -7.7pp

Players who cast this card win 36% of the time (n=34) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=157).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=28).

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 +7.8pp; 95% confidence interval -7.7pp to +23.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

78 instances

5.1%

Library

20.5%

Battlefield

32.1%

Graveyard

10.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Quintorius, History Chaser 59 decks
2 Shorikai, Genesis Engine 6 decks
3 Yoshimaru, Ever Faithful 5 decks
4 Aerith Gainsborough 4 decks
5 Joshua, Phoenix's Dominant // Phoenix, Warden of Fire 4 decks
6 Ragost, Deft Gastronaut 4 decks
7 Choco, Seeker of Paradise 3 decks
8 Dihada, Binder of Wills 3 decks
9 Venat, Heart of Hydaelyn // Hydaelyn, the Mothercrystal 3 decks
10 Aragorn, the Uniter 2 decks

Card text

Teshar, Ancestor's Apostle

Legendary Creature — Bird Cleric

Flying Whenever you cast a historic spell, return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.)

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Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Even Amundsen

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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.