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Young Pyromancer

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

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Times Brought

696

Decks Running

379

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

Young Pyromancer

Creature — Human Shaman

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

2 / 1

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

Final zone distribution

153 instances

3.9%

Library

51.6%

Battlefield

31.4%

Graveyard

2.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Shiko and Narset, Unified 36 decks
2 Zada, Hedron Grinder 24 decks
3 Feather, the Redeemed 18 decks
4 Magnus the Red 18 decks
5 Stella Lee, Wild Card 18 decks
6 Judith, Carnage Connoisseur 15 decks
7 Vivi Ornitier 15 decks
8 Niv-Mizzet, Parun 10 decks
9 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 8 decks
10 Lorehold, the Historian 8 decks

The "good card" funnel

696 brought · 346 players

Brought to game

696

Ever drawn

144

Reached battlefield

121

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 65% 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.

≥ -1.1pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=91) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=397).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=20).

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 -1.1pp to +10.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=121

16%

12%

14%

30%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 8 · max 19

On curve 22% (19 / 121 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 48%

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.