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Cathartic Pyre

· Instant · Lorwyn Eclipsed Commander (ECC)

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Times Brought

146

Decks Running

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

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

Final zone distribution

39 instances

7.7%

Battlefield

56.4%

Graveyard

5.1%

Exile

30.8%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Auntie Ool, Cursewretch 41 decks
2 Krenko, Mob Boss 7 decks
3 Imodane, the Pyrohammer 3 decks
4 The Reaper, King No More 3 decks
5 Captain Howler, Sea Scourge 2 decks
6 Magar of the Magic Strings 2 decks
7 Mogis, God of Slaughter 2 decks
8 Rivaz of the Claw 2 decks
9 Ashling, Flame Dancer 1 decks
10 Ashling, Rekindled // Ashling, Rimebound 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

146 brought · 75 players

Brought to game

146

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ +2.0pp

Players who cast this card win 36% of the time (n=18) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=83).

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 +13.8pp; 95% confidence interval +2.0pp to +25.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=21

10%

19%

67%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 9

On curve 10% (0 / 21 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 24%

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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.