Live Play Data

Command Beacon

Land · Star Trek Commander (TRC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

7758

Decks Running

3242

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

76%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=1375

14%

16%

14%

32%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 24

Cast same turn as drawn 45%

The "good card" funnel

7758 brought · 2128 players

Brought to game

7758

Ever drawn

1818

Reached battlefield

1375

Still on board at game end

1009

Once cast, 73% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.

≥ +2.8pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=1250) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=4960).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 30% (n=379).

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 +5.5pp; 95% confidence interval +2.8pp to +8.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

2088 instances

3.7%

Library

48.3%

Battlefield

27.1%

Graveyard

5.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Teval, the Balanced Scale 154 decks
2 Zhulodok, Void Gorger 67 decks
3 Gishath, Sun's Avatar 62 decks
4 Lumra, Bellow of the Woods 62 decks
5 Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign 56 decks
6 Krenko, Mob Boss 54 decks
7 Deadpool, Trading Card 33 decks
8 Kaalia of the Vast 33 decks
9 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 32 decks
10 Fire Lord Azula 32 decks

Card text

Command Beacon

Land

: Add

, Sacrifice this land: Put your commander into your hand from the command zone.

Star Trek Commander (TRC) · Rare · Illustrated by Lazare Gvimradze

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.