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Ophiomancer

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

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

586

Decks Running

312

In Decks

2150

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Final zone distribution

159 instances

1.9%

Library

34.6%

Battlefield

35.2%

Graveyard

9.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Dina, Essence Brewer 70 decks
2 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 28 decks
3 Silverquill, the Disputant 15 decks
4 Zurgo Stormrender 14 decks
5 Teysa Karlov 13 decks
6 The Serpent Society 11 decks
7 Witherbloom, the Balancer 7 decks
8 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim 6 decks
9 Marneus Calgar 5 decks
10 Meren of Clan Nel Toth 5 decks

The "good card" funnel

592 brought · 282 players

Brought to game

592

Ever drawn

145

Reached battlefield

110

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 50% 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.

≥ -9.7pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=108) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=392).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (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 -1.1pp; 95% confidence interval -9.7pp to +7.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=110

21%

16%

11%

36%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 12

On curve 29% (23 / 110 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 31%

563 of 300 tracked games 99%

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 630,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.