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
Freeform	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)

nUKe13 on nUKe13 Mardu Pyromancer - PRIMER

3 weeks ago

Balaam__ - thank you for the upvote! I appreciate the compliment on the primer. I’m constantly trying to keep it updated, even if I haven’t run it in MTGO in a hot minute.

Metropolis39 - I always appreciate your comments. And I hear what you’re saying, and I’ve been on and off Unearth, but honestly, I’ve loved it to for most creatures I typically run, including lately the 2 Titans and Joshua, Phoenix's Dominant  ^Flip. Seasoned Pyromancer is still basically the best target, but also Magus of the Moon is a close second when the stars align. Worst case scenario, it adds to the mini-cycle theme that a few of the cards in the deck have.

zapyourtumor - thank you for the comment and compliment! Young Pyromancer is definitely one of my favorite creatures, and I get it is not as competitive in modern MtG, but I still love it in a spell heavy build.

Saturn999 - I saw this deck popping up back in 2018/2019 and it was so cool at the time. Really felt like honest Magic, and reminds me of simpler times. I’ve seen builds through the years that run Liliana of the Veil (and various other planeswalkers), but most of the time Mardu Pyro tends to focus on instants/sorceries. But that also might just be my personal bias.

Cloudy2024 - I appreciate your suggestions, and I have considered focusing the deck on a more Mardu/Boros Energy style. I’ve personally liked the goodstuffs build that this trends towards. I am hesitant to lose the reactive midrange nature of the deck (which I enjoy more) than the proactive aggro nature of Energy builds. But it is a valid thought!

Andramalech on Mage Factory

7 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!

Barbarian_Sun_Pope on Pyromancermorphose

8 months ago

Have you considered Contentious Plan or Experimental Augury? The proliferate can help set up the Pyromancer Ascension by itself if you already have one in the yard.

Young Pyromancer can fill up the field with each cast.

Geralf, the Fleshwright might be a good top end since you're aiming on casting more than one spell a turn.

Hope this helps.

to_regatha_and_beyond on Chandra Tribal because yes

1 year ago

Spell_Slam Good point about Young Pyromancer, it's left over from when I first made the deck when there were fewer Chandras and more space for instants and sorceries. And thank you for the suggestion!

sergiodelrio on Zinnia fun

1 year 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

1 year 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 …

1 year 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

1 year 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.