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Live Play Data

Fabricate

{2} {U} · Sorcery · Planechase (HOP)
5%
Live Inclusion
Buy on TCGplayer
Times Brought
976
Decks Running
439
Median Cast Turn
6.0
Drawn → Played
63%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

Fabricate appears in 5% of tracked Commander decks on Playgroup Live, is drawn 26% of the time, and reaches the stack 63% of the time when it does hit a hand, with a median first-cast turn of 6.0.

Fabricate is a blue sorcery that trades 3 mana for any artifact in your library, straight to hand. On Playgroup Live it sits in 5% of tracked Commander decks, a niche but consistent slot for artifact-centric strategies.

When a copy reaches a player's hand, 63% of those copies are cast before the game ends. Median first cast lands on turn 6.0, which is three turns after the card's mana value. That gap is a draw-timing story, not a hesitation story: copies drawn late in a game simply have fewer turns available to be cast. The 39% same-turn cast rate confirms that when players do have the window, they take it without delay.

The commander spread is a useful signal here. Tony Stark // The Invincible Iron Man leads the field by a wide margin, reflecting how artifact-tutor effects are disproportionately rewarded when the commander itself generates artifact synergy. The data is well-spread across 369 unique players, with no single contributor exceeding 5% of the sample, lending the directional patterns here reasonable confidence for a dataset of this size.

At a glance
  • 5% of tracked Commander decks include Fabricate
  • 63% of drawn copies reach the stack before the game ends
  • T6.0 median first-cast turn
  • 26% draw rate across games where it was in the deck
  • 369 unique players have brought Fabricate to a tracked game
  • 39% of cast copies were played the same turn they were drawn

First-cast turn

n=160
0%
T1
9%
T2
14%
T3
13%
T4
11%
T5
43%
T6-9
11%
T10+
Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 18
On curve 23% (23 / 160 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 39%

The "good card" funnel

976 brought · 369 players
Brought to game
976
Ever drawn
253
Reached battlefield
160
Still on board at game end
8
63%

Of 976 Fabricates brought to games, 253 were drawn, 160 of those were cast, and the card resolved to its graveyard in the vast majority of cases, its job already done.

≥ +0.7pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=149) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=610).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 29% (n=85) — 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 +8.4pp; 95% confidence interval +0.7pp to +16.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

286 instances
3.8%
Library
2.8%
Battlefield
59.8%
Graveyard
7.7%
Exile

The graveyard dominates Fabricate's final zone chart, which is exactly right for a sorcery: it resolves, goes to the graveyard, and the artifact it found heads to hand. The small library share reflects copies that were never drawn.

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Tony Stark // The Invincible Iron Man sits well ahead of the field, underscoring how artifact commanders concentrate demand for a universal artifact tutor. Below the top two, the distribution fans out broadly across blue artifact strategies.

Card text
Fabricate card

Fabricate

{2} {U}
Sorcery
Search your library for an artifact card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Planechase (HOP) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Glen Angus

Frequently Asked

How often is Fabricate drawn in a Commander game?
Across 936 tracked games where Fabricate was in the deck, it was drawn 26% of the time. That is in line with expectations for a singleton in a 100-card deck. Of 253 instances that reached a hand, 63% were cast before the game concluded. The remainder largely reflects copies drawn too late in the game to resolve before it ended.
What turn does Fabricate usually get cast?
Median first-cast turn is 6.0, with the 25th percentile at turn 4 and the 75th at turn 7. The card costs 3 mana, so a turn 6 median reflects that most copies are drawn mid-game rather than in the opening hand. The same-turn cast rate of 39% shows that players are not sitting on it when the mana is available.
Does casting Fabricate correlate with winning?
In 149 participations where Fabricate was cast, the normalized win rate was 34%. In 610 participations where it stayed in the library, the rate was 26%. The delta is directional and early-signal only: the confidence interval crosses zero, so treat this as a pattern worth watching rather than a proven effect. Both sample sizes are reasonable for a dataset of this scale.
Which commanders most often run Fabricate?
Tony Stark // The Invincible Iron Man leads the tracked field by a substantial margin, which fits: an artifact commander rewards a card that finds any artifact on demand. Urza, Lord High Artificer and Zndrsplt, Eye of Wisdom round out the top three. The spread across commanders is wide, reflecting Fabricate's role as a flexible tutor that slots into any blue artifact strategy rather than a build-around.
Is Fabricate legal in Commander?
Yes. Fabricate is legal in Commander, Duel Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Historic, and Oathbreaker. It is not legal in Standard, Pioneer, Pauper, or Pauper Commander. It has never been banned in Commander and is unlikely to attract scrutiny given its single-target, sorcery-speed tutor clause.
How concentrated is the Fabricate data across players?
369 distinct players have brought Fabricate to at least one tracked game on Playgroup Live. The heaviest single contributor accounts for a small fraction of total instances. That spread is a genuine strength of this dataset: the patterns here are not the artifact of one prolific player running the card repeatedly.