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Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin

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

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

139

Decks Running

In Decks

467

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Final zone distribution

92 instances

2.2%

Library

43.5%

Battlefield

14.1%

Graveyard

3.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 38 decks
2 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 9 decks
3 Norman Osborn // Green Goblin 7 decks
4 Inalla, Archmage Ritualist 5 decks
5 Nekusar, the Mindrazer 4 decks
6 Nicol Bolas, the Ravager // Nicol Bolas, the Arisen 3 decks
7 Fire Lord Azula 2 decks
8 Jodah, the Unifier 2 decks
9 Marchesa, Dealer of Death 2 decks
10 Sauron, the Dark Lord 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

142 brought · 76 players

Brought to game

142

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 54% 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.

≥ -12.6pp

Players who cast this card win 36% of the time (n=25) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=62).

Observed gap +7.8pp; 95% confidence interval -12.6pp to +28.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=26

15%

54%

T6-9

19%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 27% (4 / 26 cast on T5)

26 of 100 times cast 26%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 640,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.