Live Play Data

Pyretic Ritual

· Instant · Magic 2011 (M11)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1167

Decks Running

556

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

71%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=203

12%

15%

16%

13%

35%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 6 · max 12

On curve 15% (24 / 203 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 35%

The "good card" funnel

1171 brought · 465 players

Brought to game

1171

Ever drawn

285

Reached battlefield

203

Still on board at game end

≥ -0.7pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=178) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=690).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 33% (n=65).

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 +6.6pp; 95% confidence interval -0.7pp to +13.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

316 instances

5.4%

Library

6.3%

Battlefield

50.9%

Graveyard

15.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Fire Lord Azula 43 decks
2 Vivi Ornitier 29 decks
3 Smaug the Impenetrable 27 decks
4 Prismari, the Inspiration 26 decks
5 Raph & Mikey, Troublemakers 26 decks
6 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness 23 decks
7 Krenko, Mob Boss 16 decks
8 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 15 decks
9 Krark, the Thumbless 11 decks
10 Thor, God of Thunder 10 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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.