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Embrace the Paradox

· Instant · Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS)

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Times Brought

195

Decks Running

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

Card text

Embrace the Paradox

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

51 instances

2.0%

Library

2.0%

Battlefield

58.8%

Graveyard

5.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Quandrix, the Proof 13 decks
2 Cosmic Spider-Man 3 decks
3 Maelstrom Wanderer 3 decks
4 Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm 3 decks
5 Tatyova, Benthic Druid 3 decks
6 The Wandering Minstrel 3 decks
7 Arzakon 2 decks
8 Bruce Banner // The Incredible Hulk 2 decks
9 Codie, Vociferous Codex 2 decks
10 Gandalf, Westward Voyager 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

195 brought · 77 players

Brought to game

195

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -5.2pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=27) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=104).

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 +5.4pp; 95% confidence interval -5.2pp to +16.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=30

13%

10%

20%

50%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.5 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 9

On curve 50% (6 / 30 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 25%

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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.