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Beast Within

Instant MV 3

Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.

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What it doesRulingsIn the 99Every version

What it does

Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Beast creature token.

Rulings

One official ruling, as Wizards published it.

  • 2021-03-19

    If the target permanent is an illegal target by the time Beast Within tries to resolve, the spell won't resolve. No player creates a Beast token. If the target is legal but not destroyed (most likely because it has indestructible), its controller does create a Beast token.

Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Beast Within, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 42
Games played 10
Win rate 40%
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Most played under

Commander Decks Games Win rate
Hakbal of the Surging Soul 3 0 —
Raph & Mikey, Troublemakers 2 2 —
Hearthhull, the Worldseed 2 0 —
Ureni of the Unwritten 2 0 —
Eshki 1 4 —
Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord 1 3 —
Tromell, Seymour's Butler 1 1 —
Aloy, Savior of Meridian 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Simic 7 decks
  • Mono-Green 4 decks
  • Temur 4 decks
  • Golgari 3 decks
  • Gruul 3 decks
  • Selesnya 3 decks
  • Jund 2 decks
  • Five-Color 2 decks
  • Four-Color (no Black) 2 decks
  • Sultai 1 deck
  • Abzan 1 deck

Every version of Beast Within

39 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly — a printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall genuinely publishes none for some of them.

Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Beast Within — a name search across every version, for the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.

Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only — no individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.