Live Play Data

Fake Your Own Death

· Instant · Foundations (FDN)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

760

Decks Running

383

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

52%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=82

11%

61%

T6-9

17%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 13

On curve 1% (1 / 82 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 15%

The "good card" funnel

760 brought · 351 players

Brought to game

760

Ever drawn

159

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -8.5pp

Players who cast this card win 21% of the time (n=74) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=496).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 24% (n=68).

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 +0.5pp; 95% confidence interval -8.5pp to +9.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

188 instances

3.7%

Library

3.2%

Battlefield

48.4%

Graveyard

7.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Deadpool, Trading Card 17 decks
2 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 15 decks
3 Evereth, Viceroy of Plunder 14 decks
4 Garland, Royal Kidnapper 13 decks
5 Tinybones, Bauble Burglar 10 decks
6 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 9 decks
7 Olinda the Oblivious 9 decks
8 Avacyn, Angel of Horror 7 decks
9 Black Cat, Cunning Thief 7 decks
10 Shadow the Hedgehog 7 decks

Card text

Fake Your Own Death

Instant

Until end of turn, target creature gets +2/+0 and gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control and you create a Treasure token." (It's an artifact with " {T}

, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Foundations (FDN) · Common · Illustrated by Monztre

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.