Live Play Data

Gatewatch Beacon

· Artifact · Commander Masters (CMM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

204

Decks Running

100

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

75%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=38

32%

47%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 18

On curve 32% (12 / 38 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 39%

The "good card" funnel

204 brought · 100 players

Brought to game

204

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 84% 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.

≥ -2.5pp

Players who cast this card win 36% of the time (n=36) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=135).

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 +13.3pp; 95% confidence interval -2.5pp to +29.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

53 instances

60.4%

Battlefield

11.3%

Graveyard

5.7%

Exile

22.6%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Commodore Guff 45 decks
2 Tam, the Possibility 15 decks
3 Jace, Multiverse Architect 6 decks
4 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice 4 decks
5 Kytheon, Hero of Akros // Gideon, Battle-Forged 3 decks
6 Pramikon, Sky Rampart 3 decks
7 Whtz, the Bibliophile 3 decks
8 Worzel, the Protector 3 decks
9 Lae'zel, Vlaakith's Champion 2 decks
10 Leori, Sparktouched Hunter 2 decks

Card text

Gatewatch Beacon

Artifact

This artifact enters with three loyalty counters on it. {T}

: Add

. Whenever a planeswalker you control enters, if this artifact has loyalty counters on it, you may move a loyalty counter from this artifact onto that planeswalker.

Commander Masters (CMM) · Rare · Illustrated by Deruchenko Alexander

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.