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Pyroblast

· Instant · Eternal Masters (EMA)

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Times Brought

1112

Decks Running

532

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.

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

Final zone distribution

226 instances

2.7%

Library

5.3%

Battlefield

42.9%

Graveyard

11.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Vivi Ornitier 30 decks
2 Krenko, Mob Boss 28 decks
3 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness 27 decks
4 Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh 20 decks
5 Raph & Mikey, Troublemakers 17 decks
6 Kaalia of the Vast 16 decks
7 Kratos, God of War 15 decks
8 Magda, Brazen Outlaw 13 decks
9 Ral, Monsoon Mage // Ral, Leyline Prodigy 10 decks
10 Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin 9 decks

The "good card" funnel

1114 brought · 428 players

Brought to game

1114

Ever drawn

199

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -4.5pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=63) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=658).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=99).

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 +1.9pp; 95% confidence interval -4.5pp to +8.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=74

23%

12%

22%

30%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 6 · max 15

On curve 3% (2 / 74 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 42%

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.