Live Play Data

Beast Within

· Instant · Star Trek Commander (TRC)

33%

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

21966

Decks Running

9515

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

63%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=3283

14%

59%

T6-9

16%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 19

On curve 4% (101 / 3283 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 27%

The "good card" funnel

21974 brought · 5181 players

Brought to game

21974

Ever drawn

5171

Reached battlefield

3283

Still on board at game end

162

≥ +1.3pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=3174) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=14951).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 32% (n=1778).

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 +2.9pp; 95% confidence interval +1.3pp to +4.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

5778 instances

3.5%

Library

2.8%

Battlefield

58.6%

Graveyard

6.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Beast Within

Instant

Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Beast creature token.

Star Trek Commander (TRC) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Filipe Pagliuso

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.