Live Play Data

Pyretic Ritual

· Instant · Magic 2011 (M11)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

2236

Decks Running

973

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

71%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=353

11%

14%

16%

18%

33%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 6 · max 15

On curve 14% (39 / 353 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 39%

The "good card" funnel

2240 brought · 764 players

Brought to game

2240

Ever drawn

495

Reached battlefield

353

Still on board at game end

≥ +5.3pp

Players who cast this card win 37% of the time (n=321) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=1438).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=125).

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 +10.5pp; 95% confidence interval +5.3pp to +15.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

551 instances

5.4%

Library

5.3%

Battlefield

54.3%

Graveyard

15.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Fire Lord Azula 63 decks
2 Vivi Ornitier 57 decks
3 Raph & Mikey, Troublemakers 49 decks
4 Prismari, the Inspiration 40 decks
5 Smaug the Impenetrable 38 decks
6 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness 36 decks
7 Krenko, Mob Boss 28 decks
8 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 25 decks
9 Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin 15 decks
10 Thor, God of Thunder 14 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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.