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Gleeful Arsonist

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

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Times Brought

133

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

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

Final zone distribution

25 instances

8.0%

Library

48.0%

Battlefield

32.0%

Graveyard

4.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 39 decks
2 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 9 decks
3 Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might // Temple of Power 3 decks
4 Inalla, Archmage Ritualist 2 decks
5 Kaervek the Merciless 2 decks
6 Ashling, the Limitless 1 decks
7 Deadpool, Trading Card 1 decks
8 Ghyrson Starn, Kelermorph 1 decks
9 Judith, Carnage Connoisseur 1 decks
10 Marchesa, the Black Rose 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

133 brought · 64 players

Brought to game

133

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -14.9pp

Players who cast this card win 24% of the time (n=18) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=87).

Observed gap -2.2pp; 95% confidence interval -14.9pp to +10.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

19 of 100 times cast 19%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

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Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.