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Magma Opus

· Instant · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

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Times Brought

327

Decks Running

184

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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

Final zone distribution

85 instances

8.2%

Battlefield

42.4%

Graveyard

14.1%

Exile

35.3%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Rootha, Mastering the Moment 95 decks
2 Shiko and Narset, Unified 33 decks
3 Vivi Ornitier 9 decks
4 Ashling, Rekindled // Ashling, Rimebound 4 decks
5 Gandalf, Party Guest 4 decks
6 Hinata, Dawn-Crowned 4 decks
7 Prismari, the Inspiration 4 decks
8 Eris, Roar of the Storm 3 decks
9 Fire Lord Azula 2 decks
10 Kalamax, the Stormsire 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

327 brought · 176 players

Brought to game

327

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -12.3pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=27) , vs 30% when it never left the library (n=165).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 29% (n=21).

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 -2.1pp; 95% confidence interval -12.3pp to +8.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=44

80%

T6-9

14%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 7 · P75 9 · max 15

On curve 70% (8 / 44 cast on T8) Cast same turn as drawn 29%

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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.