[NTJedi]

95% of the time it's best not to send anyone into the death match arena when the game consists of 3 or more opponents. First looking at the odds reveals that only one individual will win and all others will be dying and thus not worth the life of a good commander. Second the prize involves an artifact which will curse your commander to continously return to this event for all future matches. Third in games with human opponents many players will send 'screwers' into the death match which have a main purpose of giving cursed items, horror marks, cursed, blind and so on... thus even if you win, the commander will be screwed.

Ideally the death match should have a prize which would encourage players to send a good commander. The most enticing prize off the top of my head would be random gems equal to the current game turn multiplied by 1.5. Thus game turn_10 would provide 15 random gems and game turn_50 would provide 75 random gems.

The death match could really be a very interesting event if the prize was improved.