Live Play Data

Command Beacon

Land · Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

4370

Decks Running

1908

Median Cast Turn

4.0

Drawn → Played

75%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=764

12%

10%

15%

13%

29%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4.0 P25 3 · P75 6 · max 23

Cast same turn as drawn 50%

The "good card" funnel

4370 brought · 1336 players

Brought to game

4370

Ever drawn

1017

Reached battlefield

764

Still on board at game end

580

Once cast, 76% 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.

≥ +0.5pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=705) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=2775).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 30% (n=222).

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 +4.0pp; 95% confidence interval +0.5pp to +7.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

1186 instances

4.0%

Library

48.9%

Battlefield

26.3%

Graveyard

5.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Teval, the Balanced Scale 100 decks
2 Lumra, Bellow of the Woods 43 decks
3 Gishath, Sun's Avatar 40 decks
4 Zhulodok, Void Gorger 38 decks
5 Krenko, Mob Boss 33 decks
6 Deadpool, Trading Card 26 decks
7 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 22 decks
8 Kaalia of the Vast 21 decks
9 Molecule Man 20 decks
10 Fire Lord Azula 17 decks

Card text

Command Beacon

Land

: Add

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

Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC) · Rare · Illustrated by Jonas De Ro

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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.