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

190

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

54%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=172

14%

19%

30%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 4 · P75 6 · max 14

On curve 67% (52 / 172 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 31%

The "good card" funnel

193 brought · 90 players

Brought to game

193

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 57% 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.

≥ +6.4pp

Players who cast this card win 55% of the time (n=27) , vs 30% when it never left the library (n=105).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 18% (n=19).

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 +24.9pp; 95% confidence interval +6.4pp to +43.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

58 instances

3.4%

Library

27.6%

Battlefield

34.5%

Graveyard

12.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 16 decks
2 Norman Osborn // Green Goblin 16 decks
3 Inalla, Archmage Ritualist 10 decks
4 Sauron, the Dark Lord 7 decks
5 Nicol Bolas, the Ravager // Nicol Bolas, the Arisen 6 decks
6 Jodah, the Unifier 4 decks
7 Nekusar, the Mindrazer 4 decks
8 Fire Lord Azula 3 decks
9 Kess, Dissident Mage 3 decks
10 Lord Xander, the Collector 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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.