Live Play Data

Cathartic Pyre

· Instant · Lorwyn Eclipsed Commander (ECC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

145

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

65%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=26

12%

62%

T6-9

15%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 8 · max 11

On curve 4% (1 / 26 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 44%

The "good card" funnel

145 brought · 89 players

Brought to game

145

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -12.8pp

Players who cast this card win 21% of the time (n=24) , vs 17% when it never left the library (n=91).

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 +3.8pp; 95% confidence interval -12.8pp to +20.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

42 instances

2.4%

Battlefield

83.3%

Graveyard

7.1%

Exile

7.1%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Auntie Ool, Cursewretch 39 decks
2 Krenko, Mob Boss 5 decks
3 Imodane, the Pyrohammer 4 decks
4 Rivaz of the Claw 4 decks
5 The Reaper, King No More 4 decks
6 Bruce Banner // The Incredible Hulk 2 decks
7 Captain Howler, Sea Scourge 2 decks
8 Codie, Vociferous Codex 2 decks
9 Fire Lord Azula 2 decks
10 Ivora, Insatiable Heir 2 decks

Card text

Cathartic Pyre

Instant

Choose one — • Cathartic Pyre deals 3 damage to target creature or planeswalker. • Discard up to two cards, then draw that many cards.

Lorwyn Eclipsed Commander (ECC) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Ryan Yee

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.