Pyrostatic Pillar
Mana cost {1}{R}.
Whenever a player casts a spell with mana value 3 or less, this enchantment deals 2 damage to that player.
Pyrostatic Pillar is a red card, legal in Premodern, shown in its old-frame Scourge printing.
Price and printings: Cardmarket (€1.58) · TCGplayer ($2.76) · Scryfall
Tracked daily since 29 July 2026: on Cardmarket between €0.66 and €1.82 in that time.
How often Pyrostatic Pillar is played
Pyrostatic Pillar is maindecked in 3 of 131 tournament decks in this archive (2%), averaging 3.3 copies; kept in 1 sideboard (1%); used by 1 of 33 tracked archetypes.
Counting only the 66 decks that can cast red cards, 4 of them play it (6%).
See how it compares on the Premodern staples list.
Sideboard plans with Pyrostatic Pillar
- Sligh vs. Stiflenought. In: all three Overload, Mogg Salvage, Pyroblast, Red Elemental Blast and Pyrostatic Pillar.
- Sligh vs. Landstill, Psychatog and Stasis. Against all three, in: Pyroblast, Red Elemental Blast and Pyrostatic Pillar.
- Sligh vs. UG Madness, Replenish, Gro-a-Tog and Aluren. Against Replenish also Anarchy and Pyrostatic Pillar for Reckless Abandon and a Jackal Pup: Pillar punishes Intuition, Frantic Search, Attunement and Seal of Cleansing, and a Blast aimed at a resolved Attunement misses, since it returns to hand in response. Against Aluren also Pyrostatic Pillar for Reckless Abandon: it deals 2 damage to them for every creature they cast under Aluren, and the Blasts answer Cavern Harpy as it is cast.
Tournament decks with Pyrostatic Pillar
- Burn: 3rd Place at Bolt the Bird (2× mainboard)
- Sligh: 1st Place at BCDL Open 5 @ The Warp Gate (4× mainboard)
- Ponza Red: 1st Place at MTGO Premodern League (4× sideboard)
- Pillar Burn: 5th Place at FNM Lair EDITION (4× mainboard)
