Live Play Data

Young Pyromancer

· Creature — Human Shaman · Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

700

Decks Running

395

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

74%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=124

14%

15%

13%

32%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 13

On curve 16% (17 / 124 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 39%

The "good card" funnel

700 brought · 357 players

Brought to game

700

Ever drawn

168

Reached battlefield

124

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 49% 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.

≥ -1.7pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=116) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=443).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 22% (n=38).

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 +7.0pp; 95% confidence interval -1.7pp to +15.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

195 instances

3.6%

Library

31.3%

Battlefield

41.0%

Graveyard

9.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Shiko and Narset, Unified 28 decks
2 Feather, the Redeemed 23 decks
3 Judith, Carnage Connoisseur 20 decks
4 Ghyrson Starn, Kelermorph 18 decks
5 Zada, Hedron Grinder 18 decks
6 Magnus the Red 16 decks
7 Stella Lee, Wild Card 12 decks
8 Aziza, Mage Tower Captain 11 decks
9 Extus, Oriq Overlord // Awaken the Blood Avatar 11 decks
10 Massimo, the Magician 11 decks

Card text

Young Pyromancer

Creature — Human Shaman

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create a 1/1 red Elemental creature token.

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Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Alessandra Pisano

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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.