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Pyretic Ritual

· Instant · Magic 2011 (M11)

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Times Brought

774

Decks Running

392

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.

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Pyretic Ritual

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

Final zone distribution

175 instances

2.3%

Library

7.4%

Battlefield

60.0%

Graveyard

11.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness 26 decks
2 Vivi Ornitier 23 decks
3 Fire Lord Azula 19 decks
4 Raph & Mikey, Troublemakers 18 decks
5 Smaug the Impenetrable 18 decks
6 Prismari, the Inspiration 17 decks
7 Ral, Monsoon Mage // Ral, Leyline Prodigy 14 decks
8 Krenko, Mob Boss 13 decks
9 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 13 decks
10 Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh 9 decks

The "good card" funnel

774 brought · 350 players

Brought to game

774

Ever drawn

160

Reached battlefield

123

Still on board at game end

≥ -2.2pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=89) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=438).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 22% (n=23).

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 +3.4pp; 95% confidence interval -2.2pp to +9.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=123

10%

15%

12%

13%

14%

31%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 6 · max 13

On curve 24% (18 / 123 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 49%

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.