Live Play Data

Beacon of Immortality

· Instant · Tenth Edition (10E)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

944

Decks Running

366

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

59%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=133

16%

65%

T6-9

17%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 14

On curve 35% (22 / 133 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 30%

The "good card" funnel

945 brought · 335 players

Brought to game

945

Ever drawn

227

Reached battlefield

133

Still on board at game end

≥ +3.4pp

Players who cast this card win 39% of the time (n=121) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=607).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=87).

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 +12.6pp; 95% confidence interval +3.4pp to +21.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

253 instances

26.9%

Library

8.7%

Battlefield

23.7%

Graveyard

6.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Hope Estheim 72 decks
2 Oloro, Ageless Ascetic 43 decks
3 Niv-Mizzet, Ghost Counsel 28 decks
4 Bilbo, Birthday Celebrant 26 decks
5 Lorehold, the Historian 25 decks
6 Whtz, the Bibliophile 14 decks
7 Astarion, the Decadent 12 decks
8 Sorin of House Markov // Sorin, Ravenous Neonate 10 decks
9 Betor, Ancestor's Voice 6 decks
10 Karlov of the Ghost Council 6 decks

Card text

Beacon of Immortality

Instant

Double target player's life total. Shuffle Beacon of Immortality into its owner's library.

Tenth Edition (10E) · Rare · Illustrated by Rob Alexander

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 780,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.