Lapse of Certainty card art
Live Play Data

Lapse of Certainty

{2} {W} · Instant · Conflux (CON)
0%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
176
Decks Running
78
Median Cast Turn
8
Drawn → Played
57%
Format

First-cast turn

n=23
0%
T1
0%
T2
0%
T3
9%
T4
13%
T5
65%
T6-9
13%
T10+
Median 8 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 11
On curve 0% (0 / 23 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 17%

The "good card" funnel

176 brought · 75 players
Brought to game
176
Ever drawn
40
Reached battlefield
23
Still on board at game end
1
≥ -22.0pp

Players who cast this card win 18% of the time (n=20) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=116).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=15).

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 -4.5pp; 95% confidence interval -22.0pp to +13.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

45 instances
4.4%
Library
2.2%
Battlefield
51.1%
Graveyard
11.1%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Lapse of Certainty card

Lapse of Certainty

{2} {W}
Instant
Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, put it on top of its owner's library instead of into that player's graveyard.
Conflux (CON) · Common · Illustrated by Anthony Francisco

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 subset of that corpus.