Live Play Data

Magma Opus

· Instant · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

297

Decks Running

148

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

54%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=37

11%

59%

T6-9

22%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 16

On curve 73% (8 / 37 cast on T8) Cast same turn as drawn 27%

The "good card" funnel

297 brought · 143 players

Brought to game

297

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -3.9pp

Players who cast this card win 41% of the time (n=32) , vs 29% when it never left the library (n=198).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 13% (n=30).

Read this as correlation, not as the card's contribution. Casting a card means you lived long enough to cast it, so this gap widens with mana value across every card we track.

Observed gap +12.9pp; 95% confidence interval -3.9pp to +29.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

76 instances

3.9%

Library

3.9%

Battlefield

50.0%

Graveyard

9.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Rootha, Mastering the Moment 78 decks
2 Shiko and Narset, Unified 24 decks
3 Ashling, Rekindled // Ashling, Rimebound 7 decks
4 Hinata, Dawn-Crowned 5 decks
5 Fire Lord Azula 3 decks
6 Prismari, the Inspiration 3 decks
7 Vivi Ornitier 3 decks
8 Gandalf, Party Guest 2 decks
9 Kalamax, the Stormsire 2 decks
10 Veyran, Voice of Duality 2 decks

Card text

Magma Opus

Instant

Magma Opus deals 4 damage divided as you choose among any number of targets. Tap two target permanents. Create a 4/4 blue and red Elemental creature token. Draw two cards. {U/R}

, Discard this card: Create a Treasure token.

Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) · Mythic · Illustrated by Liiga Smilshkalne

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games, and the full charts need a sample of at least 25 observed games that is not dominated by a single pilot. Until this card clears those bars you're seeing only the basic counts. Stats refresh nightly.

How is Playgroup Live card data collected?

Players using Playgroup Live import their decklists before a game and log card actions as they play. Each cast, zone change, and resolution is recorded as a real game event. Stats on this site are computed from those events, not from decklist scrapes or theorycrafting. Playgroup has recorded 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.