Seasoned Pyromancer

Creature — Human Shaman

When Seasoned Pyromancer enters the battlefield, discard two cards, the draw two cards. For each nonland card discarded this way, create a 1/1 red Elemental creature token.

{3}{R}{R}, Exile Seasoned Pyromancer from your graveyard: Create two 1/1 red Elemental creature tokens.

Tokens

• Elemental 1/1 R

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Freeform	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Historic Brawl	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (45)

wallisface on Should the Number of Mana …

2 months ago

legendofa as you mention, trying to directly compare rarer cards can be tricky due to lots of effects being unique. But also due to the natural power-creep of magic making comparing cards across years difficult/muddy.

I think people feel like they have a particular grasp on what extra pips constitute in a card, but it’s difficult to back up those feelings in a factual way that’s not going to have an equal measure of counterpoints.

My own feeling on colour-pips is not that they add any additional “power” to a card, but instead add weight to “how much in-colour does this feel”. Cards like the before-mentioned Seasoned Pyromancer doesn’t feel any better than Fable of the Mirror-Breaker  ^Flip (Fable is the stronger card in many cases), but Pyromancer feels a lot more red in its effects.

My personal inkling is that cards with more pips in a certain colour tend to exhibit more “pure” effects true to a colour, and many of these effects may be scarcely seen in single-pip-variants. That doesn’t mean they’re stronger, just that they have a slightly different set of tools.

legendofa on Should the Number of Mana …

2 months ago

wallisface I think this can be resolved by looking at rarity. The most obvious examples I found were mostly common, with a couple of uncommon. At those rarities, there aren't that many different effects, and direct comparison is easy. Constructed formats tend to lean more on rares and unique uncommons, with a healthy splash of mythic rares. At these rarities, there's much more complexity, so it's harder to directly compare cards. In, for example, Modern Boros, is Seasoned Pyromancer a better card than Fable of the Mirror-Breaker  ^Flip? Is either one better than Affinity's Pinnacle Emissary? They have different effects and fill different roles. My position is that where cards can be differentiated solely by color weight, like in my examples above, the card with more color weight creates a bigger/better effect. Genuine question, are there any cards at higher rarities that are so directly comparable? Are the any examples of competitive-tier card comparisons where lower color weight produces a more desirable effect?

Andramalech on Mage Factory

4 months ago

Consider cards like: Seasoned Pyromancer, Young Pyromancer, Faithless Looting, Faithless Salvaging, Past in Flames, Lier, Disciple of the Drowned, Dark Confidant, Ripples of Undeath, Goblin Lore, and maybe consider Sensei's Divining Top. CHeers!

CommanderNeyo on Gruul Land Destruction

9 months ago

Dang, this deck seems so annoying to play against... and quite good!

A couple thoughts:

• You could include Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer as one of the 1-drop ramp spells, since he also acts as card advantage.

• Instead of Elder Gargaroth, you could play other cheaper threats, such as Seasoned Pyromancer, Dragon's Rage Channeler, Fear of Missing Out, Inti, Seneschal of the Sun, or Questing Druid that also provide some card filtering/advantage. That way, you can play them as well as your land destruction.

Andramalech on Dig Hard with a Vengeance

11 months ago

Balaam__ it's nice to see you posting a list like this! Seems like something I could potentially use. Very cool, middle-of-the-road kinda deck mechanically, but the idea behind it? Incredible. I agree with capwner that something like Seasoned Pyromancer would be extra useful for you. kamarupa makes a really great point that a few cards like Meltdown, Abrade (can't remember if that's the artifact one), etc. that one-off target an artifact. Some instant-speed removal pieces would help defend against your worst matchups with Leyline of the Void, Tormod's Crypt, and other grave-hating decks. Speeding up your process with cards like Flare of Cultivation might really make that an unexpected victory!

Balaam__ on Dig Hard with a Vengeance

11 months ago

Thanks for posting capwner. I debated the tried&true Arbor Elf + Utopia Sprawl package when I built this, and went back and forth on it. I think my reasoning was to go with more potential blockers/bolt fodder with the 8x elves in an attempt to buy more time until the payoff, but maybe the other way is the direction to go.

I like Dragon's Rage Channeler and Seasoned Pyromancer quite a bit—I completely overlooked them during the build, and now I’m wondering if that would be the most streamlined path to the wincon yet? I’ll maybeboard both immediately while I contemplate. Thanks again!

capwner on Dig Hard with a Vengeance

11 months ago

Truly a deeply emotional and moving tale, balaam. Couple of ideas Seasoned Pyromancer and Dragon's Rage Channeler seem like they'd be right at home here to fill your yard and provide a bit of early board presence, also Utopia Sprawl+Arbor Elf may be a slightly more efficient ramp package for powering out that 6 drop. Fanatic of Rhonas is another mana dork I really like which could fit pretty well here, since he comes back out of the yard as a 4/4 which taps for 4, seems great for hardcasting Ghalta.

Fluggleshmuggits on Cube Eternal

11 months ago

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