Card Preview

Parallel Lives

· Enchantment · Innistrad (ISD)

Buy on TCGplayer

Times Brought

886

Decks Running

467

In Decks

—

Decklist Inclusion

—

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

177 instances

2.3%

Library

55.9%

Battlefield

13.6%

Graveyard

2.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl 33 decks
2 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 27 decks
3 Rin and Seri, Inseparable 27 decks
4 Baylen, the Haymaker 19 decks
5 Lathril, Blade of the Elves 14 decks
6 Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm 14 decks
7 Atla Palani, Nest Tender 12 decks
8 Trostani, Selesnya's Voice 10 decks
9 Hazel of the Rootbloom 9 decks
10 Shroofus Sproutsire 9 decks

The "good card" funnel

888 brought · 390 players

Brought to game

888

Ever drawn

167

Reached battlefield

120

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 83% 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.

≥ -2.8pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=103) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=544).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 20% (n=38).

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 +2.3pp; 95% confidence interval -2.8pp to +7.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=120

15%

18%

44%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 15

On curve 28% (18 / 120 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 36%

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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.