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Fake Your Own Death

· Instant · Foundations (FDN)

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Times Brought

496

Decks Running

276

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

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

Final zone distribution

94 instances

1.1%

Library

7.4%

Battlefield

35.1%

Graveyard

8.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Evereth, Viceroy of Plunder 13 decks
2 Tinybones, Bauble Burglar 12 decks
3 Deadpool, Trading Card 11 decks
4 Fire Lord Azula 7 decks
5 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 6 decks
6 Smaug, Wicked Worm 6 decks
7 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern 6 decks
8 Laughing Jasper Flint 5 decks
9 Avacyn, Angel of Horror 4 decks
10 Black Cat, Cunning Thief 4 decks

The "good card" funnel

497 brought · 261 players

Brought to game

497

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -6.1pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=26) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=297).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 19% (n=36).

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 +3.9pp; 95% confidence interval -6.1pp to +13.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=40

18%

48%

T6-9

25%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 10 · max 17

On curve 5% (1 / 40 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 26%

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.