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Savage Beating

· Instant · Commander Masters (CMM)

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Times Brought

412

Decks Running

211

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

Savage Beating

Instant

Cast this spell only during combat on your turn. Choose one — • Creatures you control gain double strike until end of turn. • Untap all creatures you control. After this phase, there is an additional combat phase. Entwine {1}

(Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

Commander Masters (CMM) · Mythic · Illustrated by Matt Thompson

Final zone distribution

75 instances

4.0%

Library

12.0%

Battlefield

26.7%

Graveyard

13.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Gishath, Sun's Avatar 32 decks
2 Raph & Mikey, Troublemakers 26 decks
3 Magar of the Magic Strings 11 decks
4 Kratos, Stoic Father 10 decks
5 Cosmic Spider-Man 9 decks
6 Eddie Brock // Venom, Lethal Protector 6 decks
7 Gandalf, Party Guest 6 decks
8 Otharri, Suns' Glory 5 decks
9 Bruce Banner // The Incredible Hulk 4 decks
10 Tony Stark // The Invincible Iron Man 4 decks

The "good card" funnel

412 brought · 195 players

Brought to game

412

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ +3.3pp

Players who cast this card win 41% of the time (n=20) , vs 29% when it never left the library (n=229).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=30).

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 +12.1pp; 95% confidence interval +3.3pp to +20.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=29

10%

66%

T6-9

14%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 8 · max 11

On curve 21% (1 / 29 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 40%

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 750,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.