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Fear of Impostors

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

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Times Brought

175

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

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.)

3 / 2

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

Final zone distribution

42 instances

33.3%

Battlefield

33.3%

Graveyard

4.8%

Exile

28.6%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sonic the Hedgehog 16 decks
2 Umbris, Fear Manifest 10 decks
3 Orvar, the All-Form 9 decks
4 Marina Vendrell 5 decks
5 Aang, Swift Savior // Aang and La, Ocean's Fury 2 decks
6 Chulane, Teller of Tales 2 decks
7 Galadriel, Light of Valinor 2 decks
8 Hashaton, Scarab's Fist 2 decks
9 Lonis, Cryptozoologist 2 decks
10 The Master of Keys 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

175 brought · 71 players

Brought to game

175

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 64% 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.

≥ -7.1pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=20) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=101).

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 +4.5pp; 95% confidence interval -7.1pp to +16.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=22

18%

14%

41%

T6-9

14%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 12

On curve 23% (4 / 22 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 15%

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.