Live Play Data

Thermo-Alchemist

· Creature — Human Shaman · Innistrad Remastered (INR)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1006

Decks Running

484

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

75%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=188

18%

14%

15%

36%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 15

On curve 19% (34 / 188 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 45%

The "good card" funnel

1006 brought · 438 players

Brought to game

1006

Ever drawn

251

Reached battlefield

188

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 47% 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.

≥ -2.4pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=171) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=639).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=57).

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 +4.6pp; 95% confidence interval -2.4pp to +11.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

265 instances

4.2%

Library

33.6%

Battlefield

35.8%

Graveyard

6.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Ghyrson Starn, Kelermorph 81 decks
2 Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might // Temple of Power 51 decks
3 Rakdos, Lord of Riots 44 decks
4 Kardur, Doomscourge 38 decks
5 Abaddon the Despoiler 21 decks
6 Torbran, Thane of Red Fell 17 decks
7 Indoraptor, the Perfect Hybrid 15 decks
8 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 13 decks
9 Solphim, Mayhem Dominus 13 decks
10 Taii Wakeen, Perfect Shot 13 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 770,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.