Live Play Data

Pyrokinesis

· Instant · Eternal Masters (EMA)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

433

Decks Running

198

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

47%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=45

11%

18%

20%

29%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 6 · max 11

On curve 78% (6 / 45 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 39%

The "good card" funnel

433 brought · 169 players

Brought to game

433

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -6.9pp

Players who cast this card win 39% of the time (n=43) , vs 31% when it never left the library (n=283).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 38% (n=40).

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 +7.6pp; 95% confidence interval -6.9pp to +22.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

105 instances

2.9%

Library

6.7%

Battlefield

43.8%

Graveyard

7.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Krenko, Mob Boss 26 decks
2 Magda, Brazen Outlaw 26 decks
3 Vivi Ornitier 25 decks
4 Raph & Mikey, Troublemakers 23 decks
5 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness 20 decks
6 Fire Lord Azula 6 decks
7 Thor, God of Thunder 6 decks
8 Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might // Temple of Power 5 decks
9 Taii Wakeen, Perfect Shot 5 decks
10 Crystal, Inhuman Princess 4 decks

Card text

Pyrokinesis

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 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.