Live Play Data

Young Pyromancer

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1008

Decks Running

523

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

75%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=186

17%

12%

13%

31%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 13

On curve 20% (32 / 186 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 40%

The "good card" funnel

1008 brought · 467 players

Brought to game

1008

Ever drawn

249

Reached battlefield

186

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.

≥ -1.2pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=170) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=634).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=52).

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 +5.8pp; 95% confidence interval -1.2pp to +12.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

283 instances

3.5%

Library

31.1%

Battlefield

40.6%

Graveyard

10.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Shiko and Narset, Unified 44 decks
2 Zada, Hedron Grinder 27 decks
3 Feather, the Redeemed 26 decks
4 Judith, Carnage Connoisseur 23 decks
5 Magnus the Red 22 decks
6 Ghyrson Starn, Kelermorph 19 decks
7 Stella Lee, Wild Card 19 decks
8 Massimo, the Magician 15 decks
9 Extus, Oriq Overlord // Awaken the Blood Avatar 14 decks
10 Aziza, Mage Tower Captain 12 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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.