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Embrace the Paradox

{3} {G} {U} · Instant · Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS)
0%
Decklist Inclusion
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Times Brought
95
Decks Running
44
In Decks
222
Decklist Inclusion
0%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1
Card text
Embrace the Paradox card

Embrace the Paradox

{3} {G} {U}
Instant
Draw three cards. You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield tapped.
Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS) · Common · Illustrated by Julian Kok Joon Wen

Final zone distribution

32 instances

Not enough tracked games yet to show a reliable final-zone breakdown.

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

95 brought · 43 players
Brought to game
95
Ever drawn
29
Reached battlefield
21
Still on board at game end
2
≥ -11.3pp

Players who cast this card win 42% of the time (n=18) , vs 30% when it never left the library (n=58).

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 +11.4pp; 95% confidence interval -11.3pp to +34.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=21
0%
T1
0%
T2
5%
T3
14%
T4
24%
T5
38%
T6-9
19%
T10+
Median 6 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 13
On curve 43% (5 / 21 cast on T5)

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.