Live Play Data

Teval, the Balanced Scale

· Legendary Creature — Spirit Dragon · Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

256

Decks Running

117

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

92%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=55

13%

67%

T6-9

15%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 23

On curve 5% (3 / 55 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 63%

The "good card" funnel

256 brought · 103 players

Brought to game

256

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

132

Once cast, 62% 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.

≥ +0.9pp

Players who cast this card win 40% of the time (n=48) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=96).

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 +16.7pp; 95% confidence interval +0.9pp to +32.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

232 instances

0.4%

Library

56.9%

Battlefield

4.7%

Graveyard

1.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Teval, the Balanced Scale 94 decks
2 Sin, Spira's Punishment 7 decks
3 Muldrotha, the Gravetide 3 decks
4 The Wise Mothman 3 decks
5 Glarb, Calamity's Augur 2 decks
6 The Wandering Minstrel 2 decks
7 Infinite Guideline Station 1 decks
8 Sidisi, Brood Tyrant 1 decks
9 Terra, Magical Adept // Esper Terra 1 decks
10 Teval, Arbiter of Virtue 1 decks

Card text

Teval, the Balanced Scale

Legendary Creature — Spirit Dragon

Flying Whenever Teval attacks, mill three cards. Then you may return a land card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped. Whenever one or more cards leave your graveyard, create a 2/2 black Zombie Druid creature token.

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Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC) · Mythic · Illustrated by Chris Rahn

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 670,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.