Live Play Data

Beast Within

· Instant · Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC)

33%

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

8838

Decks Running

4220

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

63%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=1335

15%

56%

T6-9

15%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 19

On curve 6% (53 / 1335 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 27%

The "good card" funnel

8846 brought · 2538 players

Brought to game

8846

Ever drawn

2117

Reached battlefield

1335

Still on board at game end

≥ +1.1pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=1174) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=5473).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 31% (n=685).

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 +3.7pp; 95% confidence interval +1.1pp to +6.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

2373 instances

3.1%

Library

2.7%

Battlefield

58.3%

Graveyard

7.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Hearthhull, the Worldseed 128 decks
2 Bello, Bard of the Brambles 112 decks
3 T'Challa, the Black Panther 107 decks
4 Zimone, Infinite Analyst 93 decks
5 Hakbal of the Surging Soul 68 decks
6 Ureni of the Unwritten 63 decks
7 Beorn the Fierce 60 decks
8 Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait 50 decks
9 Gishath, Sun's Avatar 50 decks
10 The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl 50 decks

Card text

Beast Within

Instant

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

Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Thomas Chamberlain-Keen

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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.