Live Play Data

Pyroblast

· Instant · Eternal Masters (EMA)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1479

Decks Running

715

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

49%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=162

12%

15%

19%

42%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 11

On curve 5% (8 / 162 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 38%

The "good card" funnel

1480 brought · 544 players

Brought to game

1480

Ever drawn

328

Reached battlefield

162

Still on board at game end

≥ -4.9pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=140) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=949).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 33% (n=147).

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 +2.5pp; 95% confidence interval -4.9pp to +9.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

375 instances

4.3%

Library

2.4%

Battlefield

47.5%

Graveyard

11.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Krenko, Mob Boss 35 decks
2 Vivi Ornitier 30 decks
3 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness 26 decks
4 Magda, Brazen Outlaw 21 decks
5 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 19 decks
6 Raph & Mikey, Troublemakers 18 decks
7 Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh 17 decks
8 Jaws, Relentless Predator 15 decks
9 Kratos, God of War 15 decks
10 Kaalia of the Vast 13 decks

Card text

Pyroblast

Instant

Choose one — • Counter target spell if it's blue. • Destroy target permanent if it's blue.

Eternal Masters (EMA) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Lake Hurwitz

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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.