Mystik Dan is the first foal of Ma'am (Colonel John), who won four minor races in Kentucky between the ages of three and five.

Second dam Lady Siphonica (Siphon) won once and is a full sister to Siphonic (Siphon), who won the Grade 1 Hollywood Futurity and the Lane's End Breeders' Futurity, then a Grade 2, in 2001. She has produced five other winners, headed by Renaissance Art (More Than Ready), a debut winner in Ireland who was fourth in the Gr.3 Gallinule Stakes and later Listed-placed in Hong Kong.

The third dam Cherokee Crossing (Cherokee Colony) was placed and produced seven other winners, topped by Siphonic and the Listed winner Mountain Girl (Mountain Cat). An unraced daughter of hers is the dam of Laragh and Summer Front.

The wider family includes the Grade 1 winner Laragh (Tapit), Summer Front (War Front), a multiple graded stakes winner whose successes include a Grade 2 and who was multiple Grade 1-placed, and Dixie Dot Com (Dixie Brass), a multiple graded stakes winner and Grade 1-placed.

Ma'am has a 2-year-old filly by Unified named Yes Ma'am and a yearling filly by Knicks Go named Ford's Ma'am, and was covered by Wells Bayou.