Live Play Data

Ophiomancer

· Creature — Human Shaman · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1955

Decks Running

929

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

76%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=351

21%

17%

14%

29%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 15

On curve 31% (74 / 351 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 34%

The "good card" funnel

1962 brought · 798 players

Brought to game

1962

Ever drawn

461

Reached battlefield

351

Still on board at game end

182

Once cast, 52% 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.

≥ -0.2pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=318) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=1248).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=96).

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 +5.0pp; 95% confidence interval -0.2pp to +10.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

509 instances

2.8%

Library

35.8%

Battlefield

33.0%

Graveyard

10.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Dina, Essence Brewer 155 decks
2 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 127 decks
3 Zurgo Stormrender 43 decks
4 Teysa Karlov 32 decks
5 Silverquill, the Disputant 30 decks
6 The Serpent Society 29 decks
7 Caesar, Legion's Emperor 19 decks
8 Witherbloom, the Balancer 17 decks
9 Evereth, Viceroy of Plunder 15 decks
10 Kambal, Profiteering Mayor 15 decks

Card text

Ophiomancer

Creature — Human Shaman

At the beginning of each upkeep, if you control no Snakes, create a 1/1 black Snake creature token with deathtouch.

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Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) · Rare · Illustrated by Flavio Greco Paglia

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.