Live Play Data

Faithful Mending

· Instant · Star Trek Commander (TRC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

278

Decks Running

138

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

72%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=53

21%

55%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 11

On curve 4% (2 / 53 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 30%

The "good card" funnel

278 brought · 134 players

Brought to game

278

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -4.5pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=49) , vs 19% when it never left the library (n=177).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 31% (n=17).

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 +8.1pp; 95% confidence interval -4.5pp to +20.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

79 instances

2.5%

Library

1.3%

Battlefield

58.2%

Graveyard

20.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Hope Estheim 18 decks
2 Hashaton, Scarab's Fist 17 decks
3 Sefris of the Hidden Ways 11 decks
4 Whtz, the Bibliophile 9 decks
5 Zethi, Arcane Blademaster 9 decks
6 Queza, Augur of Agonies 7 decks
7 Kellan, the Kid 6 decks
8 Ratonhnhaké꞉ton 6 decks
9 Ellie and Alan, Paleontologists 4 decks
10 Rex, Cyber-Hound 4 decks

Card text

Faithful Mending

Instant

You gain 2 life, draw two cards, then discard two cards. Flashback {1}

(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Star Trek Commander (TRC) · Uncommon · Illustrated by John Tyler Christopher

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 750,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.