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Force of Will

· Instant · Dominaria Remastered (DMR)

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Times Brought

1153

Decks Running

522

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

308 instances

4.9%

Library

3.2%

Battlefield

43.8%

Graveyard

10.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 29 decks
2 Vivi Ornitier 23 decks
3 Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy 20 decks
4 Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow 19 decks
5 Urza, Lord High Artificer 14 decks
6 Marneus Calgar 9 decks
7 Najeela, the Blade-Blossom 9 decks
8 Sauron, the Dark Lord 9 decks
9 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice 8 decks
10 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 8 decks

The "good card" funnel

1154 brought · 364 players

Brought to game

1154

Ever drawn

271

Reached battlefield

142

Still on board at game end

≥ -1.8pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=114) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=658).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 27% (n=102) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +3.0pp; 95% confidence interval -1.8pp to +7.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=142

10%

15%

40%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 14

On curve 52% (22 / 142 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 24%

1117 of 300 tracked games 99%

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Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.