Command Beacon
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
T: Add .
T, Sacrifice this land: Put your commander into your hand from the command zone.
Combos with Command Beacon
Lines this card is part of — what it needs alongside it, and what the two of them do. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.
- Titania, Protector of Argoth Food Chain Infinite
- Infinite colored mana that can only be spent to cast creature spells
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite landfall triggers
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite storm count
- Food Chain Lumra, Bellow of the Woods Spelunking Infinite
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite self-mill
- Infinite storm count
- Infinite landfall triggers
- Infinite colored mana that can only be spent to cast creature spells
- Put all land cards from your library and graveyard onto the battlefield
- Infinite card draw
- Infinite draw triggers
- Lord Windgrace Planebound Accomplice Heart of Kiran Archaeological Dig Infinite
- Infinite landfall triggers
Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.
Rulings
6 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2015-11-04
If your commander isn't in the command zone (or you're not playing Commander) as the last ability resolves, nothing happens.
- 2015-11-04
If you cast a commander from your hand, the additional cost based on the number of times you've cast it from your command zone (sometimes referred to as the "commander tax") doesn't apply. Additionally, that casting won't add to the tax if you later cast the commander from the command zone.
- 2016-11-08
If you have two commanders with the partner ability in the command zone, Command Beacon's effect puts one of your choice into your hand, not both.
- 2020-11-10
If you have two commanders with the partner ability in the command zone, Command Beacon's effect puts one of your choice into your hand, not both.
- 2020-11-10
If your commander isn't in the command zone (or you don't have a commander) as the last ability resolves, nothing happens.
- 2020-11-10
If you cast a commander from your hand, the commander tax doesn't apply. Additionally, that casting won't add to commander tax if you later cast the commander from the command zone.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Command Beacon, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Betor, Ancestor's Voice | 1 | 1 | — |
| Godo, Bandit Warlord | 1 | 1 | — |
| Atarka, World Render | 1 | 0 | — |
| General Ferrous Rokiric | 1 | 0 | — |
| Giada, Font of Hope | 1 | 0 | — |
| Olinda the Oblivious | 1 | 0 | — |
| Silverquill, the Disputant | 1 | 0 | — |
| Teval, the Balanced Scale | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Mono-Black 1 deck
- Mono-Green 1 deck
- Mono-Red 1 deck
- Gruul 1 deck
- Sultai 1 deck
- Mono-White 1 deck
- Orzhov 1 deck
- Abzan 1 deck
- Boros 1 deck
Every version of Command Beacon
12 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.
Inverted
Final Fantasy: Through the Ages
- Normal
- $8.43
- Foil
- $23.37
Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander
- Normal
- $10.05
Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander
- Normal
- $10.36
Inverted
Secret Lair Drop
- Normal
- $13.75
Inverted
Secret Lair Drop
- Foil
- $15.25
Promo
Commander Legends Promos
- Normal
- $9.40
- Foil
- $11.00
Inverted
Secret Lair Drop
- Foil
- $43.03
- Normal
- $8.58
- Foil
- $7.68
Extended Art
- Normal
- $13.50
- Foil
- $16.82
The List
- Normal
- $10.28
Promo
Judge Gift Cards 2016
- Foil
- $24.62
Commander 2015
- Normal
- $8.39
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Command Beacon — 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.