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Interplanar Beacon

Land · Commander Masters (CMM)

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Times Brought

211

Decks Running

123

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

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

Final zone distribution

49 instances

2.0%

Library

73.5%

Battlefield

8.2%

Graveyard

2.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Commodore Guff 24 decks
2 Tam, the Possibility 18 decks
3 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice 16 decks
4 Jace, Multiverse Architect 12 decks
5 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 6 decks
6 Nicol Bolas, the Ravager // Nicol Bolas, the Arisen 5 decks
7 Jared Carthalion 4 decks
8 Carth the Lion 2 decks
9 Chandra, Fire of Kaladesh // Chandra, Roaring Flame 2 decks
10 Jodah, the Unifier 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

211 brought · 118 players

Brought to game

211

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 97% 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.

≥ -4.2pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=32) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=116).

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 -4.2pp to +15.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=37

30%

11%

35%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 1 · P75 8 · max 12

Cast same turn as drawn 68%

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.