Live Play Data

Pyretic Ritual

· Instant · Magic 2011 (M11)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

2829

Decks Running

1201

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

72%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=463

10%

15%

14%

18%

34%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 15

On curve 11% (46 / 463 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 35%

The "good card" funnel

2833 brought · 940 players

Brought to game

2833

Ever drawn

643

Reached battlefield

463

Still on board at game end

≥ +3.7pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=443) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=1927).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 32% (n=167).

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 +8.2pp; 95% confidence interval +3.7pp to +12.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

711 instances

4.8%

Library

4.6%

Battlefield

56.4%

Graveyard

13.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Fire Lord Azula 78 decks
2 Vivi Ornitier 72 decks
3 Raph & Mikey, Troublemakers 58 decks
4 Prismari, the Inspiration 52 decks
5 Smaug the Impenetrable 42 decks
6 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness 41 decks
7 Krenko, Mob Boss 30 decks
8 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 30 decks
9 Slicer, Hired Muscle // Slicer, High-Speed Antagonist 18 decks
10 Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin 17 decks

Card text

Pyretic Ritual

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Magic 2011 (M11) · Common · Illustrated by James Paick

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 780,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.