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Ophidian Eye

· Enchantment — Aura · Time Spiral (TSP)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

302

Decks Running

171

In Decks

1161

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Ophidian Eye

Enchantment — Aura

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) Enchant creature Whenever enchanted creature deals damage to an opponent, you may draw a card.

Time Spiral (TSP) · Common · Illustrated by Zoltan Boros & Gabor Szikszai

Final zone distribution

106 instances

3.8%

Library

34.0%

Battlefield

32.1%

Graveyard

9.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 73 decks
2 Vivi Ornitier 36 decks
3 Ghyrson Starn, Kelermorph 26 decks
4 Crystal, Inhuman Princess 7 decks
5 Niv-Mizzet, Parun 5 decks
6 Kratos, Stoic Father 3 decks
7 Captain America, First Avenger 2 decks
8 Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator 2 decks
9 Nekusar, the Mindrazer 2 decks
10 Niv-Mizzet, Dracogenius 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

302 brought · 158 players

Brought to game

302

Ever drawn

101

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 58% 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.

≥ +5.8pp

Players who cast this card win 48% of the time (n=56) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=159).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=33) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +19.7pp; 95% confidence interval +5.8pp to +33.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=62

10%

18%

53%

T6-9

15%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 5% (3 / 62 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 29%

62 of 100 times cast 62%

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

Frequently Asked

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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.