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Force of Will

· Instant · Dominaria Remastered (DMR)

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Times Brought

3593

Decks Running

1526

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 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

Final zone distribution

881 instances

3.7%

Library

2.8%

Battlefield

46.0%

Graveyard

10.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

3596 brought · 1004 players

Brought to game

3596

Ever drawn

783

Reached battlefield

419

Still on board at game end

≥ +1.7pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=329) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=1975).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 30% (n=279).

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 +4.6pp; 95% confidence interval +1.7pp to +7.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=419

13%

16%

40%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 15

On curve 51% (66 / 419 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 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.