Live Play Data

Magma Opus

· Instant · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

442

Decks Running

208

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

56%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=63

10%

56%

T6-9

25%

T10+

Median 8 P25 6 · P75 10 · max 16

On curve 68% (12 / 63 cast on T8) Cast same turn as drawn 31%

The "good card" funnel

442 brought · 197 players

Brought to game

442

Ever drawn

113

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -2.1pp

Players who cast this card win 38% of the time (n=54) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=281).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 16% (n=45).

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 +10.7pp; 95% confidence interval -2.1pp to +23.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

125 instances

4.0%

Library

6.4%

Battlefield

49.6%

Graveyard

12.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Rootha, Mastering the Moment 100 decks
2 Shiko and Narset, Unified 32 decks
3 Prismari, the Inspiration 10 decks
4 Hinata, Dawn-Crowned 8 decks
5 Ashling, Rekindled // Ashling, Rimebound 7 decks
6 Kalamax, the Stormsire 5 decks
7 Fire Lord Azula 4 decks
8 Vivi Ornitier 4 decks
9 Gandalf, Party Guest 3 decks
10 Lilah, Undefeated Slickshot 3 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 710,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.