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Part of The Lost Caverns of Ixalan
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Legendary Creature — Merfolk Wizard
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The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (LCC)
Live Play Data
Kopala, Warden of Waves
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Legendary Creature — Merfolk Wizard
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The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (LCC)
1%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
388
Decks Running
164
Median Cast Turn
6.0
Drawn → Played
71%
Format
First-cast turn
n=62
0%
T1
3%
T2
16%
T3
8%
T4
16%
T5
42%
T6-9
15%
T10+
Median
6.0
P25
4
· P75
8
· max
13
On curve
19%
(10 / 62 cast on T3)
Cast same turn as drawn
25%
The "good card" funnel
388 brought · 151 playersBrought to game
388
Ever drawn
83
Reached battlefield
59
Still on board at game end
30
Once cast, 51% 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.
≥ -5.6pp
Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=55) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=251).
When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 35% (n=21).
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 +6.3pp; 95% confidence interval -5.6pp to +18.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
Final zone distribution
96 instances3.1%
Library
31.3%
Battlefield
38.5%
Graveyard
7.3%
Exile
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
Hakbal of the Surging Soul
111 decks
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2
Namor the Sub-Mariner
20 decks
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3
Kumena, Tyrant of Orazca
5 decks
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4
Svyelun of Sea and Sky
5 decks
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5
Grandmother Goby
3 decks
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6
Namor, Atlantean King
3 decks
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7
Sygg, River Guide
3 decks
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8
Tuvasa the Sunlit
3 decks
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9
Adrix and Nev, Twincasters
2 decks
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10
Emperor Mihail II
2 decks
Card text
Kopala, Warden of Waves
Legendary Creature — Merfolk Wizard
Spells your opponents cast that target a Merfolk you control cost 
more to cast.
Abilities your opponents activate that target a Merfolk you control cost more to activate.
more to cast.
Abilities your opponents activate that target a Merfolk you control cost more to activate.2 / 2
The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (LCC)
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Rare
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Illustrated by Magali Villeneuve
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.