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Ophiomancer

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

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Times Brought

1503

Decks Running

751

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

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

Final zone distribution

351 instances

1.4%

Library

45.0%

Battlefield

31.1%

Graveyard

6.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Dina, Essence Brewer 157 decks
2 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 99 decks
3 Teysa Karlov 23 decks
4 Zurgo Stormrender 23 decks
5 Silverquill, the Disputant 20 decks
6 Caesar, Legion's Emperor 19 decks
7 The Serpent Society 17 decks
8 Witherbloom, the Balancer 13 decks
9 Braids, Arisen Nightmare 11 decks
10 Evereth, Viceroy of Plunder 11 decks

The "good card" funnel

1510 brought · 661 players

Brought to game

1510

Ever drawn

337

Reached battlefield

267

Still on board at game end

158

Once cast, 59% 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.

≥ -2.6pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=212) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=793).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 19% (n=45).

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 +1.2pp; 95% confidence interval -2.6pp to +5.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=267

15%

22%

15%

10%

27%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 16

On curve 41% (58 / 267 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 32%

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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.