Young Pyromancer

Creature — Human Shaman

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

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
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Historic Brawl	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (50)

sergiodelrio on Zinnia fun

5 months ago

Not an EDH player, but I felt inspired to do a quick search and I hope it's not too embarrassing... I focused mostly, but not exclusively, on 1 power creatures for max synergy:

• Faerie Miscreant (I think the copies will see each other if you stack triggers correctly)

• Cloud of Faeries

• Goblin Instigator and the likes

• Double Suture Priest seems worth it?

• Double Esper Sentinel triggers certainly worth it

• Young Pyromancer and Murmuring Mystic might get outta hand quickly if you choose to play nonpermanent spells, but maybe too inconsistent

• Defiler of Faith seems good, I believe the cost reduction ability stacks??? but not 100% sure

happy brewing

DarkKiridon on "So Anyway, I Started Blastin!"

5 months ago

Electrostatic Field ?

Young Pyromancer perhaps? But maybe you don't play enough instants or sorceries to justify a slot.

+1 from me.

SteelSentry on Are Free Spells Becoming Too …

7 months ago

The nontoken clause is really only being used once or twice a set at the most, because edicts are, in general, the weakest form of removal. The strongest edict without that clause was Liliana of the Veil, and she was only in control or midrange shells that were designed to kill everything and strip the opponent of resources. These same sets have had Extract a Confession which is sorcery and requires evidence to be the stronger version, Zoyowa Lava-Tongue, Tithing Blade  ^Flip,Vraska's Fall, Voracious Fell Beast, Pyretic Prankster  ^Flip, and Braids, Arisen Nightmare.

If they absolutely have to make free spells, I'm glad they have a real cost so you can't Flare turn 1 off a Khalni Garden or get a free spell with any of the long list of Young Pyromancer effects.

Argy on young pyro

7 months ago

Young Pyromancer has always been in Pioneer.

Just because a card is prominent in Modern, that doesn’t mean it’s not used in other formats.

When I started playing Standard, it was in. I had it in the first deck I ever built.

Hypersayia9001 on Kykar kicks ass (Suggestions needed!) (Budget)

7 months ago

As a general addition, it always helps to keep your win condition in consideration when deciding on what cards you want to use in a deck.

Looking at it as is, I'd say you primary goal is to storm out your board with tokens form the likes of Young Pyromancer, Third Path Iconoclast and Kykar, Wind's Fury themselves, using the spirits Kykar gives you to help fuel a storm off.

This in mind, I think you'd actually want at least another full-board haste granter like Rising of the Day so you have an easier time swinging out when you go through a turn building a board state, and a few more 1 mana red cantrips like Expedite

Coward_Token on Murders at Karlov Manor

10 months ago

Kinda wondering how you actually win with Kylox, Visionary Inventor? Sure, you can make sac fodder with token makers like Young Pyromancer and/or steal effects, but what do you expect to flip into with your seven mana commander? Most big burn spells in EDH have X costs, and extra turns don't do that much if you don't have something else going on after sacrificing the world.

plakjekaas on I think this is the …

1 year ago

Of course MtG is not study material to brush up on other cultures, but it is a point of contact for the uninitiated. I know the term Shaman through Magic first, and the only reason I heard the term Druid before is because of Asterix.

I don't think the anger is about trying to prevent people getting hurt, but more about a fictional escape from the real world being creatively stumped by people taking personal offense of your enjoyment. And now the game has to give up part of its established identity for it, and your argument why is: "If you really want to gain sympathy for or learn about cultures that includes practices of shamanism, MTG isn't the way to go about learning that."? That goes both ways, right, so if we can accept that MtG is not the place to look for real world representation, then so can the people who object to the word "Shaman" in the game. It feels like Magic loses out on design space because of arbitrary reasons, because real world people unable to dissociate from the fictional characters in front of them, and chosing to take personal offense instead. I'm not WotC, but I would feel bad to lose part of my creation to cater to that.

In today's world it's a financial risk to offend people though. I understand that, from the motivation of the continued existence of the game, changes like these are probably inevitable. I might be personally effected by the next one and look back on my words with a whole new understanding. The issue is complex, and I don't think it's progress to stop talking about it and to avoid everything altogether by exclusion in the future.

So to get back on topic, if the types have to be discontinued, maybe an Elementalist type could be introduced to replace them. That woul probably cover the fantasy base of their powers. Both types work closely with Elementals already, like Tatyova, Steward of Tides or Young Pyromancer, so making that the new green base spellcaster would fit. It would be fun to have a creature with "Elemental Elementalist" in the typeline :P

DadHumanPraetor on Feather, the Cruel Striker

1 year ago

So I play stuff like Zada, Hedron Grinder and Mirrorwing Dragon so that when I cast Brute Force or Built to Smash and then cast Gods Willing targeting them, ALL my creatures are unblockable (from the protection) and pumped. I think the equipment and a lot of the creatures you selected are fun value cards, but its gotta be hard to close the game. Making things big, hard to kill, and unblockable...well that can close the game easily. Young Pyromancer and Leonin Lightscribe and probably better than Electrostatic Field and the spell recursion seems to go against the current, since your spells are rarely going to the graveyard. If you want I could upload my feather deck list when I get home later and you could sort of see the direction I decided to take it. Yours seems to want to grind out value, mine is more about killing your opponents