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
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (50)

Argy on young pyro

1 day 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)

2 days 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

2 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 …

6 months 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

6 months 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

nUKe13 on nUKe13 Mardu Pyromancer - PRIMER

10 months ago

I know I haven’t posted in a long, LONG time, but maybe I can explain why I chose certain cards and what changes I’ve made

Metropolis39 - I appreciate you diligently working with me to help the deck grow and adapt. March of Reckless Joy was a consensus of other Mardu Pyro players and myself discussing draw potential. Since the deck was leaning more and more {R}, it made sense to lean on it as a good card filter/threat finder. But, it definitely came at a cost of being particularly devastating if countered. Hopefully there comes along some decent card draw like we once enjoyed with Faithless Looting. So, yeah, March was a feeble attempt to fill the void left by Looting.

YamishiTheWickedOne - also, thanks for your enthusiasm as well as I’ve been working on the deck. Even if the techs are suboptimal by meta standards, I appreciate you trying to see from my POV. For win-cons, the deck has always tried to 1) grind through and dismantle opponents’ game plan, 2) go wide with tokens, and 3) swing with creatures and burn spells. So, the deck doesn’t really rely on one specific threat sticking (like Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger. That being said, I was wrong about excluding (at least 1) Kroxa. The utility it provides the deck, from discard, to burn, to clock, to giant-ass beat-stick is really what this deck needs.

I’ve been experimenting with returning to the roots of Young Pyromancer and Manamorphose, and I’ve been testing out Monastery Mentor-based builds. It definitely feels more glass cannon with Mentor, but when it pops off, it’s insane!

Thank y’all for your patience and dedication to the build. I greatly appreciate it.

legendofa on CMO's Purple Deck

1 year ago

Welcome to the club, CMO!

How much mileage do you get out of Saheeli, Sublime Artificer? With only four artifacts to copy, this might be better served as another Young Pyromancer if you want the token production.

Of those artifacts, do you ever hit 50 life for Aetherflux Reservoir? If you're just using it as a life buffer, that slot could probably go to something that helps you win more quickly, instead of slowing down your opponent's progress. Same thing with Everflowing Chalice: if it's not directly helping you win in an Izzet spellslinger deck, it's just slowing the game down. Some decks like to control the pace of the game like that, but I think this deck wants to go faster. Like Balaam__ said, adding a few lands would help reliability.

In general, a deck wants more copies of its key cards. A lot of 1-ofs and 2-ofs will just kind of dilute the deck. Pick the cards you like best and get four copies of those. As an example, between Spellheart Chimera and Kinetic Augur, load up on the one that you like more and cut the other. This will give your deck more consistency.

You could also get away with labeling this as a Modern deck; all of the cards are Modern-legal.

Above all, have fun!

Icbrgr on Minor Misstep

1 year ago

@SpammyV cascade is one of the "decks to beat" at my LGS and I think that's honestly what got me so pumped for Minor Misstep to begin with... but knowing that stupid deck they will just Violent Outburst on my end step with Force of Negation in hand anyway (I really really hate that deck lol)

@Gidgetimer no worries at all honestly just thanks a bunch for helping me look into/understand how the ruling works.

@wallisface I think I'm leaning that way too in thinking that if this kinda countermagic has a main deck "home" then I'd say that some sort of tempo build... and have always been a sucker for Monastery Mentor/Young Pyromancer builds.