Live Play Data

Fear of Impostors

· Enchantment Creature — Nightmare · Duskmourn: House of Horror (DSK)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

180

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

56%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=27

59%

T6-9

26%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 10 · max 14

On curve 0% (0 / 27 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 32%

The "good card" funnel

183 brought · 57 players

Brought to game

183

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 48% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.

≥ -2.0pp

Players who cast this card win 39% of the time (n=26) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=109).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 49% (n=18).

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 +16.5pp; 95% confidence interval -2.0pp to +35.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

55 instances

23.6%

Battlefield

30.9%

Graveyard

5.5%

Exile

40.0%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Fear of Impostors

Enchantment Creature — Nightmare

Flash When this creature enters, counter target spell. Its controller manifests dread. (That player looks at the top two cards of their library, then puts one onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature and the other into their graveyard. If it's a creature card, it can be turned face up any time for its mana cost.)

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Duskmourn: House of Horror (DSK) · Uncommon · Illustrated by David Szabo

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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.