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Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin

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

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Times Brought

195

Decks Running

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

—

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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

55 instances

10.9%

Library

34.5%

Battlefield

29.1%

Graveyard

9.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 16 decks
2 Inalla, Archmage Ritualist 12 decks
3 Norman Osborn // Green Goblin 10 decks
4 Sauron, the Dark Lord 8 decks
5 Nekusar, the Mindrazer 6 decks
6 Jodah, the Unifier 5 decks
7 Kess, Dissident Mage 3 decks
8 Fire Lord Azula 2 decks
9 Kenrith, the Returned King 2 decks
10 Nicol Bolas, the Ravager // Nicol Bolas, the Arisen 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

195 brought · 77 players

Brought to game

195

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 61% 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.

≥ +2.9pp

Players who cast this card win 37% of the time (n=25) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=99).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=16).

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 +12.8pp; 95% confidence interval +2.9pp to +22.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=113

15%

34%

17%

27%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 4 · P75 6 · max 11

On curve 70% (19 / 113 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 22%

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.