Winter, Cynical Opportunist

Global Commander Stats

1379 Wins

2973 Losses

Summary

Winter, Cynical Opportunist is a Magic: The Gathering commander tracked across 4,352 recorded Playgroup games, winning 31% of them (1379–2973) at an Elo of 1,498, ranking #2894 globally.

Wins average 9 turns, with 96 damage dealt and 0.6 player kills per game on average.

Last full refresh 22 Jun 2026

Sources Scryfall · EDHREC · JSON API

Frequently Asked

What is Winter, Cynical Opportunist's win rate?

Winter, Cynical Opportunist has a 31% win rate across 4352 recorded Playgroup games (1379 wins, 2973 losses).

How long do winning games with Winter, Cynical Opportunist take?

Wins with Winter, Cynical Opportunist take on average 9 turns. Total tracked play time: about 1 month.

How many decks use Winter, Cynical Opportunist?

1,145 decks list Winter, Cynical Opportunist as their commander on Playgroup, of which 786 have played at least one recorded game.

Winter, Cynical Opportunist Magic: The Gathering commander card art

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Global Rank

2894

Wins By Turn (on avg.)

Elo rating

1498

Global Elo Trend

Commander Popularity Trend

Misc. Stats

Average damage per game 96

Average commander damage per game 2

Average poison counters given per game 4

Average kills per game 0.6

Average turn length 1 minute

No. decks for this commander 1145

No. decks with at least one game for this commander 786

No. games played with this commander 4352

Total hours played about 1 month

Top 5 Public Decks

Rank	Elo	User	No. games	Wins	Winrate
1	1681	Hawt_Wingz	41	15	37 %
2	1668	Guardi-ola	15	10	67 %
3	1572	Martyhum	10	4	40 %
4	1570	Ptito	6	3	50 %
5	1555	aTastyT0ast	2	2	100 %

How does this commander win?

When Winter, Cynical Opportunist wins, 72.02% of wins come via combat across tracked games with a recorded win condition.

Combat

72.02%

Non Combat Damage

16.67%

Combo

4.46%

Alternative

4.27%

Commander Damage

1.98%

Mill

0.5%

Poison

0.1%

Avg win turn 9.3 based on 1428 wins with recorded turn counts

Does seating order matter?

Winter, Cynical Opportunist wins 39.25% of games from position 1 and 15.0% from position 5 across tracked games.

Seat 1

39.25% n=1335

Seat 2

33.81% n=1390

Seat 3

25.19% n=1060

Seat 4

22.61% n=637

Seat 5

15.0% n=100

Seat 6

25.0% n=12

Do mulligans hurt this commander?

Across tracked games, Winter, Cynical Opportunist wins 30.62% after 0 mulligans and 50.0% after 5 mulligans.

0 mulligans

30.62% n=2443

1 mulligan

29.15% n=597

2 mulligans

24.04% n=183

3 mulligans

28.57% n=49

4 mulligans

14.29% n=7

5 mulligans

50.0% n=2

How do players rate games with this commander?

Pilot rating

Pilots rate their own games with Winter, Cynical Opportunist 3.7/5 on average, across 3114 self-reports.

3.7 / 5

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Opponent salt

When Winter, Cynical Opportunist wins, opponents flag the game as salty 69.5% of the time across 1431 tracked wins.

69.5 \%

Best and worst matchups

Opposing commanders with at least ten tracked games against Winter, Cynical Opportunist. Pairs with fewer than 25 games are shown in italics; treat those as suggestive, not statistical.