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Live Play Data

Pyrokinesis

{4} {R} {R} · Instant · Eternal Masters (EMA)
1%
Live Inclusion
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Times Brought
343
Decks Running
154
Median Cast Turn
5
Drawn → Played
51%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=37
8%
T1
5%
T2
11%
T3
16%
T4
24%
T5
27%
T6-9
8%
T10+
Median 5 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 11
On curve 73% (3 / 37 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 39%

The "good card" funnel

343 brought · 138 players
Brought to game
343
Ever drawn
72
Reached battlefield
37
Still on board at game end
7
≥ -11.3pp

Players who cast this card win 36% of the time (n=35) , vs 31% when it never left the library (n=227).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 32% (n=27).

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 +4.7pp; 95% confidence interval -11.3pp to +20.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

80 instances
3.8%
Library
8.8%
Battlefield
41.3%
Graveyard
8.8%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Pyrokinesis card

Pyrokinesis

{4} {R} {R}
Instant
You may exile a red card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Pyrokinesis deals 4 damage divided as you choose among any number of target creatures.
Eternal Masters (EMA) · Rare · Illustrated by Igor Kieryluk

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 710,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.