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Kiora Bests the Sea God

· Enchantment — Saga · Theros Beyond Death (THB)

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Times Brought

232

Decks Running

137

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

Kiora Bests the Sea God

Enchantment — Saga

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.) I — Create an 8/8 blue Kraken creature token with hexproof. II — Tap all nonland permanents target opponent controls. They don't untap during their controller's next untap step. III — Gain control of target permanent an opponent controls. Untap it.

Theros Beyond Death (THB) · Mythic · Illustrated by Victor Adame Minguez

Final zone distribution

61 instances

6.6%

Library

26.2%

Battlefield

27.9%

Graveyard

8.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Tom Bombadil 66 decks
2 Terra, Magical Adept // Esper Terra 11 decks
3 Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle 8 decks
4 Kiora, Sovereign of the Deep 8 decks
5 Runo Stromkirk // Krothuss, Lord of the Deep 6 decks
6 Aminatou, Veil Piercer 4 decks
7 Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer 3 decks
8 Chisei, Heart of Oceans 3 decks
9 Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait 2 decks
10 Pir, Imaginative Rascal 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

232 brought · 135 players

Brought to game

232

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 48% 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.

≥ +4.6pp

Players who cast this card win 38% of the time (n=26) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=118).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 21% (n=17).

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 +14.0pp; 95% confidence interval +4.6pp to +23.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=33

61%

T6-9

24%

T10+

Median 8 P25 7 · P75 9 · max 13

On curve 42% (8 / 33 cast on T7) Cast same turn as drawn 44%

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.