Magnus the Red card art
Live Play Data

Magnus the Red

{3} {U} {R} · Legendary Creature — Demon Primarch · Warhammer 40,000 Commander (40K)
1%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
145
Decks Running
76
Median Cast Turn
5.0
Drawn → Played
56%
Format

First-cast turn

n=52
2%
T1
10%
T2
10%
T3
19%
T4
25%
T5
27%
T6-9
8%
T10+
Median 5.0 P25 4 · P75 6 · max 12
On curve 65% (13 / 52 cast on T5)

The "good card" funnel

145 brought · 75 players
Brought to game
145
Ever drawn
36
Reached battlefield
20
Still on board at game end
7

Once cast, 35% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.

≥ +1.8pp

Players who cast this card win 38% of the time (n=19) , vs 14% when it never left the library (n=94).

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 +24.6pp; 95% confidence interval +1.8pp to +47.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

39 instances
5.1%
Library
17.9%
Battlefield
35.9%
Graveyard
17.9%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Magnus the Red card

Magnus the Red

{3} {U} {R}
Legendary Creature — Demon Primarch
Flying Unearthly Power — Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast for each creature token you control. Blade of Magnus — Whenever Magnus the Red deals combat damage to a player, create a 3/3 red Spawn creature token.
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Warhammer 40,000 Commander (40K) · Rare · Illustrated by Wonchun Choi

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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.