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Parallel Lives

· Enchantment · Innistrad (ISD)

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Times Brought

683

Decks Running

376

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

Parallel Lives

Enchantment

If an effect would create one or more tokens under your control, it creates twice that many of those tokens instead.

Innistrad (ISD) · Rare · Illustrated by Steve Prescott

Final zone distribution

138 instances

2.9%

Library

50.7%

Battlefield

14.5%

Graveyard

2.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl 30 decks
2 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 23 decks
3 Rin and Seri, Inseparable 23 decks
4 Baylen, the Haymaker 13 decks
5 Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm 12 decks
6 Lathril, Blade of the Elves 11 decks
7 Hazel of the Rootbloom 8 decks
8 Shroofus Sproutsire 7 decks
9 Trostani, Selesnya's Voice 7 decks
10 Xyris, the Writhing Storm 7 decks

The "good card" funnel

685 brought · 323 players

Brought to game

685

Ever drawn

130

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 80% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.

≥ -5.4pp

Players who cast this card win 24% of the time (n=75) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=430).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 19% (n=34) — 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 +0.6pp; 95% confidence interval -5.4pp to +6.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=88

13%

23%

41%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 15

On curve 26% (11 / 88 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 34%

88 of 100 times cast 88%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

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.