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

340

Decks Running

156

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

52%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=325

13%

21%

27%

29%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 4 · P75 6 · max 16

On curve 68% (89 / 325 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 29%

The "good card" funnel

343 brought · 153 players

Brought to game

343

Ever drawn

107

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 52% 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.

≥ +19.9pp

Players who cast this card win 57% of the time (n=49) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=189).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 30% (n=42).

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 +33.3pp; 95% confidence interval +19.9pp to +46.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

116 instances

6.9%

Library

25.0%

Battlefield

33.6%

Graveyard

12.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Norman Osborn // Green Goblin 27 decks
2 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 24 decks
3 Inalla, Archmage Ritualist 19 decks
4 Nekusar, the Mindrazer 11 decks
5 Nicol Bolas, the Ravager // Nicol Bolas, the Arisen 10 decks
6 Sauron, the Dark Lord 8 decks
7 Jodah, the Unifier 7 decks
8 Fire Lord Azula 4 decks
9 Jace, Multiverse Architect 4 decks
10 Lord Xander, the Collector 4 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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.