Live Play Data

Stroke of Midnight

· Instant · Reality Fracture Commander (FRC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

4345

Decks Running

1977

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

64%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=687

13%

55%

T6-9

18%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 19

On curve 5% (26 / 687 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 24%

The "good card" funnel

4347 brought · 1501 players

Brought to game

4347

Ever drawn

1067

Reached battlefield

687

Still on board at game end

≥ +3.6pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=621) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=2783).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 30% (n=336).

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 +7.4pp; 95% confidence interval +3.6pp to +11.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

1167 instances

3.7%

Library

2.3%

Battlefield

59.6%

Graveyard

8.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Jace, Multiverse Architect 219 decks
2 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 94 decks
3 Giada, Font of Hope 62 decks
4 Queen Marchesa 46 decks
5 Zurgo Stormrender 40 decks
6 Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER 38 decks
7 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 32 decks
8 Ms. Bumbleflower 29 decks
9 Lightning, Army of One 28 decks
10 Caesar, Legion's Emperor 22 decks

Card text

Stroke of Midnight

Instant

Destroy target nonland permanent. Its controller creates a 1/1 white Human creature token.

Reality Fracture Commander (FRC) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Julia Metzger

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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.