Commander

Winter, Cynical Opportunist

Global commander stats

All Golgari commanders Featured in Duskmourn: House of Horror

1481 Wins

3224 Losses

Overview

Summary

Winter, Cynical Opportunist is a Magic: The Gathering commander tracked across 4,720 recorded Playgroup games, winning 31% of them (1481–3224) at an Elo of 1,529, ranking #1534 globally.

Wins average 9 turns, with 91 damage dealt and 0.59 player kills per game on average.

Last full refresh 1 Oct 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 4720 recorded Playgroup games (1481 wins, 3224 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?

1,261 decks list Winter, Cynical Opportunist as their commander on Playgroup, of which 858 have played at least one recorded game.

Winter, Cynical Opportunist Magic: The Gathering commander card art

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Global rank

1534

Wins by turn (avg.)

Elo rating

1529

Trend

Global Elo trend

Trend

Commander popularity trend

Averages

Misc. stats

Average damage per game 91

Average commander damage per game 2

Average poison counters given per game 3

Average kills per game 0.59

Average turn length 2 minutes

No. decks for this commander 1261

No. decks with at least one game for this commander 858

No. games played with this commander 4720

Total hours played about 1 month

Community

Top 5 public decks

Rank	Elo	User	Games	Wins	Winrate
1	1668	Guardi-ola	15	10	67 %
2	1617	Hawt_Wingz	45	15	33 %
3	1576	Raphael xguerramuerte7x	9	5	56 %
4	1576	Matt Posthuma	4	2	50 %
5	1570	Ptito	6	3	50 %

Outcomes

How does this commander win?

When Winter, Cynical Opportunist wins, 72.35% of wins come via combat across tracked games with a recorded win condition.

Combat

72.35%

Non Combat Damage

16.41%

Alternative

4.42%

Combo

4.15%

Commander Damage

2.03%

Mill

0.55%

Poison

0.09%

Avg win turn 9.3 based on 1533 wins with recorded turn counts

Measured

Staples that win games for Winter, Cynical Opportunist

Cards that raise this deck's measured win rate the most, compared with Winter, Cynical Opportunist decks that leave them out.

+5.6 pp

Top card: Assassin's Trophy

#	Card	Lift Win-rate lift	Games
1	Assassin's Trophy 164 games	+5.6 pp	164
2	Nesting Grounds 279 games	+1.8 pp	279
3	Syr Konrad, the Grim 270 games	+1.3 pp	270
4	Six 161 games	+0.7 pp	161

Measured win-rate lift against decks on the same commander without the card, ranked by the 95% lower bound. How this is measured

Table position

Does seating order matter?

Winter, Cynical Opportunist wins 38.8% of games from position 1 and 15.89% from position 5 across tracked games.

Seat 1

38.8% n=1451

Seat 2

33.58% n=1516

Seat 3

25.2% n=1131

Seat 4

21.96% n=683

Seat 5

15.89% n=107

Seat 6

26.67% n=15

Opening hands

Do mulligans hurt this commander?

Across tracked games, Winter, Cynical Opportunist wins 30.47% after 0 mulligans and 0.0% after 6 mulligans.

0 mulligans

30.47% n=2558

1 mulligan

28.87% n=653

2 mulligans

24.51% n=204

3 mulligans

26.92% n=52

4 mulligans

11.11% n=9

5 mulligans

33.33% n=3

6 mulligans

0.0% n=1

Player reports

How do players rate games with this commander?

Pilot rating

Pilots rate their own games with Winter, Cynical Opportunist 3.71/5 on average, across 3346 self-reports.

3.71 / 5

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Opponent salt

When Winter, Cynical Opportunist wins, opponents flag the game as salty 69.7% of the time across 1541 tracked wins.

69.7 \%

Head to head

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.