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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
268
Decks Running
131
Median Cast Turn
5.0
Drawn → Played
78%
Format
First-cast turn
n=46
0%
T1
2%
T2
22%
T3
11%
T4
20%
T5
35%
T6-9
11%
T10+
Median
5.0
P25
4
· P75
8
· max
12
On curve
24%
(10 / 46 cast on T3)
Cast same turn as drawn
28%
The "good card" funnel
268 brought · 121 playersBrought to game
268
Ever drawn
55
Reached battlefield
43
Still on board at game end
24
Once cast, 56% 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.
≥ -5.0pp
Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=41) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=175).
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 +9.6pp; 95% confidence interval -5.0pp to +24.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
Final zone distribution
66 instances36.4%
Battlefield
42.4%
Graveyard
7.6%
Exile
13.6%
Hand
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
Hakbal of the Surging Soul
88 decks
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2
Namor the Sub-Mariner
18 decks
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3
Kumena, Tyrant of Orazca
5 decks
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4
Svyelun of Sea and Sky
4 decks
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5
Namor, Atlantean King
3 decks
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6
Adrix and Nev, Twincasters
2 decks
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7
Emperor Mihail II
2 decks
-
8
Grandmother Goby
2 decks
-
9
Sygg, River Guide
2 decks
-
10
Attuma, Atlantean Warlord
1 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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.