Commander

Winter, Misanthropic Guide

Global commander stats

All Jund commanders

229 Wins

1093 Losses

Overview

Summary

Winter, Misanthropic Guide is a Magic: The Gathering commander tracked across 1,328 recorded Playgroup games, winning 17% of them (229–1093) at an Elo of 1,446, ranking #4515 globally.

Wins average 10 turns, with 3 damage dealt and 0.46 player kills per game on average.

Last full refresh 17 Oct 2026

Sources Scryfall · EDHREC · JSON API

Frequently Asked

What is Winter, Misanthropic Guide's win rate?

Winter, Misanthropic Guide has a 17% win rate across 1328 recorded Playgroup games (229 wins, 1093 losses).

How long do winning games with Winter, Misanthropic Guide take?

Wins with Winter, Misanthropic Guide take on average 10 turns. Total tracked play time: 16 days.

How many decks use Winter, Misanthropic Guide?

471 decks list Winter, Misanthropic Guide as their commander on Playgroup, of which 302 have played at least one recorded game.

Winter, Misanthropic Guide Magic: The Gathering commander card art

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Global rank

4515

Wins by turn (avg.)

Elo rating

1446

Trend

Global Elo trend

Trend

Commander popularity trend

Averages

Misc. stats

Average damage per game 3

Average commander damage per game 4

Average poison counters given per game 3

Average kills per game 0.46

Average turn length 2 minutes

No. decks for this commander 471

No. decks with at least one game for this commander 302

No. games played with this commander 1328

Total hours played 16 days

Community

Top 5 public decks

Rank	Elo	User	Games	Wins	Winrate
1	1673	Critter King	12	8	73 %
2	1560	Orson	1	1	100 %
3	1536	Lemur Lime	1	1	100 %
4	1535	Puzyri	30	8	27 %
5	1515	lopackuub	13	3	23 %

Outcomes

How does this commander win?

When Winter, Misanthropic Guide wins, 56.38% of wins come via non combat damage across tracked games with a recorded win condition.

Non Combat Damage

56.38%

Combat

28.72%

Combo

6.38%

Alternative

5.85%

Commander Damage

1.06%

Mill

1.06%

Poison

0.53%

Avg win turn 9.4 based on 241 wins with recorded turn counts

Measured

Staples that win games for Winter, Misanthropic Guide

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

+9.3 pp

Top card: Ob Nixilis, the Hate-Twisted

#	Card	Lift Win-rate lift	Games
1	Ob Nixilis, the Hate-Twisted 37 games	+9.3 pp	37
2	Razorkin Needlehead 105 games	+6.6 pp	105
3	Spiteful Visions 84 games	+5.4 pp	84
4	Vault of Whispers 47 games	+5.4 pp	47
5	Commercial District Signature build 34 games · Signature build	+4.7 pp	34
6	Tree of Tales 49 games	+4.5 pp	49
7	Dragonskull Summit 54 games	+4.3 pp	54
8	Shifting Woodland 40 games	+4.0 pp	40
9	Orcish Bowmasters 82 games	+3.2 pp	82
10	Drag to the Roots 42 games	+2.1 pp	42

Show 3 more (ranks 11-13)

#	Card	Lift Win-rate lift	Games
11	Geth's Grimoire 80 games	+1.9 pp	80
12	Waste Not 80 games	+1.6 pp	80
13	Underworld Dreams 83 games	+1.1 pp	83

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, Misanthropic Guide wins 20.94% of games from position 1 and 0.0% from position 6 across tracked games.

Seat 1

20.94% n=406

Seat 2

19.37% n=382

Seat 3

15.76% n=330

Seat 4

11.42% n=219

Seat 5

12.9% n=31

Seat 6

0.0% n=5

Opening hands

Do mulligans hurt this commander?

Across tracked games, Winter, Misanthropic Guide wins 18.35% after 0 mulligans and 0.0% after 6 mulligans.

0 mulligans

18.35% n=665

1 mulligan

17.09% n=199

2 mulligans

16.0% n=75

3 mulligans

16.67% n=24

4 mulligans

33.33% n=6

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, Misanthropic Guide 3.75/5 on average, across 931 self-reports.

3.75 / 5

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Opponent salt

When Winter, Misanthropic Guide wins, opponents flag the game as salty 38.5% of the time across 244 tracked wins.

38.5 \%

Head to head

Best and worst matchups

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