Live Play Data

Sakashima the Impostor

· Legendary Creature — Human Rogue · Saviors of Kamigawa (SOK)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

745

Decks Running

348

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

52%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=100

14%

18%

50%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 22% (14 / 100 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 26%

The "good card" funnel

745 brought · 339 players

Brought to game

745

Ever drawn

191

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 56% 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.

≥ -2.2pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=88) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=458).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 31% (n=79).

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 +7.7pp; 95% confidence interval -2.2pp to +17.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

216 instances

5.1%

Library

25.5%

Battlefield

24.5%

Graveyard

7.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Sakashima the Impostor

Legendary Creature — Human Rogue

You may have Sakashima the Impostor enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except its name is Sakashima the Impostor, it's legendary in addition to its other types, and it has " {2}

: Return Sakashima the Impostor to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step."

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Saviors of Kamigawa (SOK) · Rare · Illustrated by rk post

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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.