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Live Play Data

Force of Will

· Instant · Dominaria Remastered (DMR)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

4958

Decks Running

2012

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

60%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=753

10%

12%

15%

45%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 23

On curve 44% (115 / 753 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 32%

The "good card" funnel

4965 brought · 1304 players

Brought to game

4965

Ever drawn

1249

Reached battlefield

753

Still on board at game end

≥ +7.0pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=684) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=2945).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 41% (n=431).

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 +10.7pp; 95% confidence interval +7.0pp to +14.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

1466 instances

4.2%

Library

4.3%

Battlefield

50.3%

Graveyard

13.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 81 decks
2 Vivi Ornitier 80 decks
3 Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy 60 decks
4 Urza, Lord High Artificer 49 decks
5 Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow 41 decks
6 Grand Arbiter Augustin IV 31 decks
7 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 31 decks
8 Tymna the Weaver 31 decks
9 Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima 30 decks
10 Nekusar, the Mindrazer 27 decks

Card text

Force of Will

Instant

You may pay 1 life and exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Counter target spell.

Dominaria Remastered (DMR) · Mythic · Illustrated by Donato Giancola

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 750,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.