Live Play Data

Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin

Legendary Creature — Human Wizard // Legendary Creature — Avatar Wizard · Final Fantasy (FIN)

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Times Brought

242

Decks Running

119

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

53%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=257

14%

19%

29%

28%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 4 · P75 6 · max 14

On curve 69% (74 / 257 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 29%

The "good card" funnel

245 brought · 116 players

Brought to game

245

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 51% 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.

≥ +12.3pp

Players who cast this card win 56% of the time (n=36) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=134).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=25).

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 +28.4pp; 95% confidence interval +12.3pp to +44.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

79 instances

3.8%

Library

25.3%

Battlefield

34.2%

Graveyard

10.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 20 decks
2 Norman Osborn // Green Goblin 19 decks
3 Inalla, Archmage Ritualist 16 decks
4 Nekusar, the Mindrazer 7 decks
5 Nicol Bolas, the Ravager // Nicol Bolas, the Arisen 7 decks
6 Sauron, the Dark Lord 7 decks
7 Jodah, the Unifier 5 decks
8 Fire Lord Azula 4 decks
9 Lord Xander, the Collector 4 decks
10 Kess, Dissident Mage 3 decks

Card text

Kefka, Court Mage

Legendary Creature — Human Wizard

Whenever Kefka enters or attacks, each player discards a card. Then you draw a card for each card type among cards discarded this way. {8}

: Each opponent sacrifices a permanent of their choice. Transform Kefka. Activate only as a sorcery.

4 / 5

Kefka, Ruler of Ruin

Legendary Creature — Avatar Wizard

Flying Whenever an opponent loses life during your turn, you draw that many cards.

5 / 7

Final Fantasy (FIN) · Mythic · Illustrated by Xui Ton

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.