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Kefka, Dancing Mad

· Legendary Creature — Human Wizard · Final Fantasy Commander (FIC)

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Times Brought

296

Decks Running

146

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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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, Dancing Mad

Legendary Creature — Human Wizard

During your turn, Kefka has indestructible. At the beginning of your end step, exile a card at random from each opponent's graveyard. You may cast any number of spells from among cards exiled this way without paying their mana costs. Then each player who owns a spell you cast this way loses life equal to its mana value.

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Final Fantasy Commander (FIC) · Rare · Illustrated by Anton Solovianchyk

Final zone distribution

73 instances

2.7%

Library

35.6%

Battlefield

24.7%

Graveyard

8.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Terra, Herald of Hope 75 decks
2 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 19 decks
3 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 12 decks
4 Celes, Rune Knight 6 decks
5 Jodah, the Unifier 4 decks
6 The Infamous Cruelclaw 4 decks
7 Fire Lord Zuko 3 decks
8 Jace, Multiverse Architect 3 decks
9 Deadpool, Trading Card 2 decks
10 Don Andres, the Renegade 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

296 brought · 141 players

Brought to game

296

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 79% 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.

≥ -5.1pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=26) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=170).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 18% (n=25).

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 +4.8pp; 95% confidence interval -5.1pp to +14.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=36

56%

T6-9

19%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 12

On curve 56% (5 / 36 cast on T7) Cast same turn as drawn 32%

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.