Live Play Data

Force of Negation

· Instant · Double Masters 2022 (2X2)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

3806

Decks Running

1618

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

55%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=546

11%

16%

49%

T6-9

12%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 24

On curve 12% (35 / 546 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 27%

The "good card" funnel

3806 brought · 1106 players

Brought to game

3806

Ever drawn

985

Reached battlefield

546

Still on board at game end

≥ +1.7pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=499) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=2244).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 38% (n=403).

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 +5.9pp; 95% confidence interval +1.7pp to +10.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

1139 instances

5.2%

Library

4.0%

Battlefield

44.7%

Graveyard

12.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 113 decks
2 Vivi Ornitier 56 decks
3 Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy 50 decks
4 Urza, Lord High Artificer 48 decks
5 Whtz, the Bibliophile 36 decks
6 Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow 36 decks
7 Fire Lord Azula 34 decks
8 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 32 decks
9 Tymna the Weaver 27 decks
10 Grand Arbiter Augustin IV 23 decks

Card text

Force of Negation

Instant

If it's not your turn, you may exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Counter target noncreature spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.

Double Masters 2022 (2X2) · Rare · Illustrated by Paul Scott Canavan

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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.