Live Play Data

Thermo-Alchemist

· Creature — Human Shaman · Innistrad Remastered (INR)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

394

Decks Running

210

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

76%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=81

16%

19%

15%

30%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 3 · P75 6 · max 11

On curve 25% (13 / 81 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 53%

The "good card" funnel

394 brought · 188 players

Brought to game

394

Ever drawn

106

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 51% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.

≥ -3.9pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=72) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=241).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=23).

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 +7.2pp; 95% confidence interval -3.9pp to +18.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

110 instances

4.5%

Library

37.3%

Battlefield

35.5%

Graveyard

5.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Ghyrson Starn, Kelermorph 42 decks
2 Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might // Temple of Power 25 decks
3 Rakdos, Lord of Riots 21 decks
4 Kardur, Doomscourge 18 decks
5 Abaddon the Despoiler 11 decks
6 Torbran, Thane of Red Fell 8 decks
7 Feather, the Redeemed 7 decks
8 Indoraptor, the Perfect Hybrid 7 decks
9 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 6 decks
10 Judith, Carnage Connoisseur 4 decks

Card text

Thermo-Alchemist

Creature — Human Shaman

Defender

: This creature deals 1 damage to each opponent. Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, untap this creature.

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Innistrad Remastered (INR) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Raymond Swanland

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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.