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Faithful Mending

· Instant · Star Trek Commander (TRC)

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Times Brought

158

Decks Running

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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

Final zone distribution

34 instances

5.9%

Battlefield

61.8%

Graveyard

17.6%

Exile

14.7%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Hope Estheim 16 decks
2 Hashaton, Scarab's Fist 9 decks
3 Whtz, the Bibliophile 6 decks
4 Sefris of the Hidden Ways 4 decks
5 Brallin, Skyshark Rider 3 decks
6 Ellie and Alan, Paleontologists 3 decks
7 Queza, Augur of Agonies 3 decks
8 Will, Scion of Peace 3 decks
9 Aminatou, the Fateshifter 2 decks
10 Kellan, the Kid 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

158 brought · 78 players

Brought to game

158

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -8.4pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=15) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=72).

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 +5.7pp; 95% confidence interval -8.4pp to +19.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=22

23%

36%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 16

On curve 9% (1 / 22 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 25%

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.