Live Play Data

Gleeful Arsonist

· Creature — Human Wizard · Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander (DSC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

253

Decks Running

158

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

64%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=38

18%

11%

45%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 15

On curve 26% (7 / 38 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 40%

The "good card" funnel

254 brought · 153 players

Brought to game

254

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 53% 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.

≥ -16.3pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=35) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=165).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 21% (n=17).

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 -1.0pp; 95% confidence interval -16.3pp to +14.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

65 instances

3.1%

Library

30.8%

Battlefield

30.8%

Graveyard

10.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 90 decks
2 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 23 decks
3 Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might // Temple of Power 8 decks
4 The Lord of Pain 7 decks
5 The Muckslinger Gang 6 decks
6 Ruric Thar, the Unbowed 3 decks
7 Ghyrson Starn, Kelermorph 2 decks
8 Mogis, God of Slaughter 2 decks
9 Alania, Divergent Storm 1 decks
10 Chandra, Fire of Kaladesh // Chandra, Roaring Flame 1 decks

Card text

Gleeful Arsonist

Creature — Human Wizard

Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, this creature deals damage equal to its power to that player. Undying (When this creature dies, if it had no +1/+1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it.)

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Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander (DSC) · Rare · Illustrated by Nereida

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.