Live Play Data

Fake Your Own Death

· Instant · Foundations (FDN)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

984

Decks Running

485

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

50%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=104

11%

13%

59%

T6-9

15%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 14

On curve 2% (2 / 104 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 17%

The "good card" funnel

984 brought · 442 players

Brought to game

984

Ever drawn

209

Reached battlefield

104

Still on board at game end

≥ -8.2pp

Players who cast this card win 20% of the time (n=95) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=647).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 29% (n=96).

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 -0.4pp; 95% confidence interval -8.2pp to +7.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

246 instances

3.3%

Library

2.8%

Battlefield

48.4%

Graveyard

8.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Deadpool, Trading Card 20 decks
2 Evereth, Viceroy of Plunder 16 decks
3 Garland, Royal Kidnapper 15 decks
4 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 15 decks
5 Tinybones, Bauble Burglar 14 decks
6 Olinda the Oblivious 12 decks
7 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 11 decks
8 Smaug, Wicked Worm 10 decks
9 Avacyn, Angel of Horror 9 decks
10 Black Cat, Cunning Thief 8 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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.