Live Play Data

New Way Forward

· Instant · Tarkir: Dragonstorm (TDM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

120

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

—

Drawn → Played

35%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=11

Not enough observed casts yet to show a reliable distribution.

The "good card" funnel

120 brought · 59 players

Brought to game

120

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Final zone distribution

33 instances

12.1%

Library

12.1%

Battlefield

30.3%

Graveyard

6.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Pramikon, Sky Rampart 6 decks
2 Kynaios and Tiro of Meletis 5 decks
3 Shiko and Narset, Unified 5 decks
4 Captain America, First Avenger 4 decks
5 Zinnia, Valley's Voice 4 decks
6 Ruhan of the Fomori 3 decks
7 The Second Doctor 3 decks
8 Cayth, Famed Mechanist 2 decks
9 Crystal, Inhuman Princess 2 decks
10 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 2 decks

Card text

New Way Forward

Instant

The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage. When damage is prevented this way, New Way Forward deals that much damage to that source's controller and you draw that many cards.

Tarkir: Dragonstorm (TDM) · Rare · Illustrated by Eli Minaya

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.