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Magma Opus

· Instant · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

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Times Brought

145

Decks Running

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

39 instances

5.1%

Battlefield

43.6%

Graveyard

15.4%

Exile

35.9%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Rootha, Mastering the Moment 47 decks
2 Shiko and Narset, Unified 15 decks
3 Ashling, Rekindled // Ashling, Rimebound 2 decks
4 Gandalf, Party Guest 2 decks
5 Veyran, Voice of Duality 2 decks
6 Vivi Ornitier 2 decks
7 Bohn, Beguiling Balladeer 1 decks
8 Elsha, Threefold Master 1 decks
9 Eris, Roar of the Storm 1 decks
10 Fire Lord Azula 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

145 brought · 82 players

Brought to game

145

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -15.8pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=15) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=82).

Observed gap -1.7pp; 95% confidence interval -15.8pp to +12.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

18 of 100 times cast 18%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

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Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.