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Pact of Negation

· Instant · Time Spiral Remastered (TSR)

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Times Brought

2462

Decks Running

1087

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

Pact of Negation

Instant

Counter target spell. At the beginning of your next upkeep, pay {3}

. If you don't, you lose the game.

Time Spiral Remastered (TSR) · Rare · Illustrated by Jason Chan

Final zone distribution

600 instances

3.5%

Library

7.0%

Battlefield

39.5%

Graveyard

13.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

2472 brought · 774 players

Brought to game

2472

Ever drawn

533

Reached battlefield

254

Still on board at game end

≥ +0.2pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=235) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=1540).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 29% (n=248).

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 +3.6pp; 95% confidence interval +0.2pp to +7.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=254

12%

14%

50%

T6-9

17%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 15

Cast same turn as drawn 34%

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 780,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.