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Pyrokinesis

· Instant · Eternal Masters (EMA)

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Times Brought

383

Decks Running

188

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

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

Final zone distribution

71 instances

5.6%

Library

5.6%

Battlefield

43.7%

Graveyard

12.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness 20 decks
2 Krenko, Mob Boss 20 decks
3 Magda, Brazen Outlaw 19 decks
4 Raph & Mikey, Troublemakers 19 decks
5 Vivi Ornitier 16 decks
6 Deadpool, Trading Card 10 decks
7 Crystal, Inhuman Princess 6 decks
8 Fire Lord Azula 6 decks
9 Spider-Man 2099 6 decks
10 Thor, God of Thunder 5 decks

The "good card" funnel

383 brought · 163 players

Brought to game

383

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -17.5pp

Players who cast this card win 23% of the time (n=23) , vs 30% when it never left the library (n=209).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 36% (n=19).

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 -6.8pp; 95% confidence interval -17.5pp to +3.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=40

13%

15%

18%

10%

38%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4.0 P25 3 · P75 6 · max 8

On curve 78% (6 / 40 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 44%

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.