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Live Play Data

Caldera Pyremaw

{3} {R} {R} · Creature — Dragon · Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC)
1%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
163
Decks Running
88
Median Cast Turn
7.0
Drawn → Played
56%
Format

First-cast turn

n=20
0%
T1
0%
T2
10%
T3
0%
T4
10%
T5
65%
T6-9
15%
T10+
Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 12
On curve 20% (2 / 20 cast on T5)

The "good card" funnel

164 brought · 84 players
Brought to game
164
Ever drawn
36
Reached battlefield
20
Still on board at game end
13

Once cast, 65% 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.

≥ +4.4pp

Players who cast this card win 51% of the time (n=17) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=108).

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 +27.7pp; 95% confidence interval +4.4pp to +51.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

42 instances
2.4%
Library
31.0%
Battlefield
35.7%
Graveyard
11.9%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Caldera Pyremaw card

Caldera Pyremaw

{3} {R} {R}
Creature — Dragon
Flying Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Then this creature deals damage equal to its power to target opponent.
3 / 3
Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC) · Rare · Illustrated by Johann Bodin

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 670,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.