Live Play Data

Interplanar Beacon

Land · Commander Masters (CMM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

471

Decks Running

218

Median Cast Turn

4.0

Drawn → Played

81%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=106

17%

15%

16%

12%

11%

21%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4.0 P25 2 · P75 6 · max 18

Cast same turn as drawn 51%

The "good card" funnel

471 brought · 205 players

Brought to game

471

Ever drawn

131

Reached battlefield

106

Still on board at game end

101

Once cast, 95% 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.

≥ +0.6pp

Players who cast this card win 39% of the time (n=99) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=284).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 43% (n=21).

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 +11.0pp; 95% confidence interval +0.6pp to +21.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

144 instances

4.2%

Library

70.1%

Battlefield

10.4%

Graveyard

3.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Commodore Guff 50 decks
2 Tam, the Possibility 50 decks
3 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice 21 decks
4 Jace, Multiverse Architect 10 decks
5 Carth the Lion 9 decks
6 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 9 decks
7 Nicol Bolas, the Ravager // Nicol Bolas, the Arisen 8 decks
8 Arzakon 3 decks
9 Sisay, Weatherlight Captain 3 decks
10 Aminatou, the Fateshifter 2 decks

Card text

Interplanar Beacon

Land

Whenever you cast a planeswalker spell, you gain 1 life. {T}

: Add

: Add two mana of different colors. Spend this mana only to cast planeswalker spells.

Commander Masters (CMM) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Adam Paquette

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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.