An Offer You Can't Refuse
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Instant
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Foundations (FDN)
An Offer You Can't Refuse is in 11% of tracked Commander decks, and when players do draw it, they cast it 47% of the time. Its median first-cast turn is 6, consistent with reactive countermagic held for the right moment.
An Offer You Can't Refuse sits in 11% of the 1,692 Commander decks tracked on Playgroup Live. That's a niche but deliberate inclusion: the 184 decks running it are overwhelmingly blue spellslinger and artifact strategies where a one-mana counterspell is worth the two Treasures it concedes to the opponent.
The draw-to-play rate of 47% is lower than an auto-cast staple like Sol Ring, and that's expected. This card is a reactive instant. Players hold it, assess the threat, and sometimes never find the right target before the game ends. The median first-cast turn of 6 confirms that pattern. When it does land, the win rate in those 34 observed casts is 29%, against a baseline of roughly 25% in a four-player pod. The directional signal is positive, though the sample is too small to treat that gap as conclusive.
The commander distribution is notably concentrated. Galazeth Prismari leads with 22 decks, followed by Ms. Bumbleflower at 15 and Me, the Immortal at 12. That clustering around artifact and spellslinger strategies tracks with the card's design: the Treasure rider is a mild drawback in a vacuum, but in decks that convert tokens into mana or card advantage it becomes negligible or even synergistic.
- 11% inclusion rate across 1,692 tracked Commander decks
- 47% of drawn copies are cast before the game ends
- T6 median first-cast turn, consistent with held reactive countermagic
- 34 observed casts across 250 tracked games
- 3% battlefield stickiness, expected for a one-shot instant that resolves into the graveyard
- 29% win rate in games where it was cast, vs. ~25% baseline
First-cast turn
n=46The "good card" funnel
481 broughtOf 316 copies brought to games, 73 were drawn and 34 of those were cast, a 47% draw-to-play conversion that reflects deliberate reactive holding rather than a card players eagerly slam onto the stack.
Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=46) , vs 36% when it never left the library (n=351).
Final zone distribution
481 instances229 of 316 brought copies never left the library, the expected outcome for reactive singleton countermagic in a 100-card deck where the right target may simply not appear.
Top commanders running this card
by deck count-
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Galazeth Prismari
22 decks
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2
Ms. Bumbleflower
17 decks
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3
Kenrith, the Returned King
13 decks
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4
Me, the Immortal
13 decks
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5
Sauron, the Dark Lord
13 decks
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6
Vivi Ornitier
12 decks
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7
Lonis, Cryptozoologist
11 decks
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8
Krang, the All-Powerful
10 decks
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9
Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima
9 decks
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10
Gandalf, Westward Voyager
8 decks
The top ten commanders are concentrated in blue artifact and spellslinger strategies, with Galazeth Prismari alone accounting for 22 of the 184 including decks, suggesting a clear archetype home rather than broad adoption.
How often is An Offer You Can't Refuse drawn in a Commander game? ▾
In the 315 deck-participations tracked, the card was drawn 73 times, giving a draw rate of 23%. That is close to the expected floor for a singleton in a 100-card deck. Of those 73 drawn instances, 34 were cast, a draw-to-play rate of 47%. The gap between drawn and cast is almost entirely a function of its reactive nature: players hold it and may not find a suitable noncreature target before the game closes.
What turn does An Offer You Can't Refuse typically get cast? ▾
The median first-cast turn is 6, with the 25th percentile at turn 5 and the 75th at turn 8. Only 2 of 34 casts happened on turn 1. That distribution reflects how the card is actually used: players keep it in hand as reactive countermagic and deploy it mid-game when a threatening noncreature spell resolves. The hand-to-cast median is 1 turn of waiting after drawing it, and only 32% of draws result in a same-turn cast.
Is the win rate data meaningful for this card? ▾
Treat it as directional only. Games where it was cast show a 29% win rate across 34 observations, versus 39% for games where it stayed in the library across 229 observations. The cast-vs-library delta is negative at roughly -10 percentage points. That does not mean the card hurts you. Decks running reactive permission spells often play lower-to-the-ground strategies with different win conditions, and a 34-game cast sample is too small to draw firm conclusions. The library bucket is large enough to be reliable, but the cast bucket is not.
Why is battlefield stickiness so low at 3%? ▾
An Offer You Can't Refuse is a one-shot instant. It resolves, counters a spell, creates two Treasure tokens for the opponent, and goes to the graveyard. It was never meant to stay on the battlefield. Of the 34 casts tracked, only 1 ended on the battlefield, which likely reflects a game-state snapshot artifact rather than a meaningful pattern. The relevant stickiness for this card is the Treasure tokens it generates for your opponent, not for you.
Which commanders run An Offer You Can't Refuse most often? ▾
Galazeth Prismari leads with 22 decks, followed by Ms. Bumbleflower at 15, Me, the Immortal at 12, and Lonis, Cryptozoologist at 11. The top commanders are concentrated in UR spellslinger and artifact strategies. In those shells, the two Treasures handed to an opponent are a manageable cost because the deck often has ways to interact with or outpace token-based mana advantages.
Is An Offer You Can't Refuse legal in all Commander variants? ▾
It is legal in Commander, Duel Commander, Brawl, and Oathbreaker among the multiplayer variants. It is not legal in Pauper Commander because it is an uncommon, not a common. It is also not legal in PreDH. In all other tracked formats including Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, and Vintage it is currently legal.