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Force of Negation

· Instant · Double Masters 2022 (2X2)

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Times Brought

1844

Decks Running

825

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

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

Final zone distribution

420 instances

3.3%

Library

4.0%

Battlefield

38.8%

Graveyard

12.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

1845 brought · 600 players

Brought to game

1845

Ever drawn

378

Reached battlefield

183

Still on board at game end

≥ +0.6pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=143) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=1023).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 30% (n=153).

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 +4.9pp; 95% confidence interval +0.6pp to +9.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=183

15%

16%

44%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 16

On curve 16% (13 / 183 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 27%

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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.