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Beast Within

· Instant · Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC)

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Times Brought

3357

Decks Running

1733

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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

Final zone distribution

700 instances

2.7%

Library

3.4%

Battlefield

57.3%

Graveyard

4.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

3364 brought · 1188 players

Brought to game

3364

Ever drawn

645

Reached battlefield

392

Still on board at game end

≥ -1.6pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=331) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=2145).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 32% (n=211) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +1.3pp; 95% confidence interval -1.6pp to +4.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=392

10%

14%

48%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 19

On curve 14% (39 / 392 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 26%

3931 of 300 tracked games 99%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.