Live Play Data

Way of the Paradox

· Legendary Enchantment · Reality Fracture (FRA)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

241

Decks Running

104

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

83%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=54

15%

11%

46%

T6-9

20%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 17

On curve 19% (8 / 54 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 39%

The "good card" funnel

241 brought · 100 players

Brought to game

241

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 78% 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.

≥ -6.8pp

Players who cast this card win 36% of the time (n=47) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=150).

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 +7.6pp; 95% confidence interval -6.8pp to +22.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

73 instances

57.5%

Battlefield

30.1%

Graveyard

4.1%

Exile

8.2%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Way of the Paradox

Legendary Enchantment

When Way of the Paradox enters, empower Jace 5. (Put five loyalty counters on a Jace token you control. If you don't control one, first create a blue Jace planeswalker token with "[−1]: Surveil 1" and "[−3]: Draw a card.") Whenever you activate a loyalty ability, you gain 1 life. You may play an additional land this turn.

Reality Fracture (FRA) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Josh Hass

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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.