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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

208

Decks Running

112

In Decks

635

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

Final zone distribution

130 instances

1.5%

Library

46.9%

Battlefield

13.1%

Graveyard

3.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 53 decks
2 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 10 decks
3 Norman Osborn // Green Goblin 10 decks
4 Inalla, Archmage Ritualist 6 decks
5 Nicol Bolas, the Ravager // Nicol Bolas, the Arisen 5 decks
6 Nekusar, the Mindrazer 4 decks
7 Fire Lord Azula 3 decks
8 Jodah, the Unifier 3 decks
9 Sauron, the Dark Lord 3 decks
10 Be'lakor, the Dark Master 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

211 brought · 103 players

Brought to game

211

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 50% 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.

≥ -7.4pp

Players who cast this card win 38% of the time (n=34) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=99).

Observed gap +10.0pp; 95% confidence interval -7.4pp to +27.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=36

22%

50%

T6-9

17%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 33% (8 / 36 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 56%

36 of 100 times cast 36%

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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.