Commander

Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin

Global commander stats {U} {B} {R} All Grixis commanders
Win Rate 30%
1135 Wins
2545 Losses
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Overview

Summary

Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin is a Magic: The Gathering commander tracked across 3,687 recorded Playgroup games, winning 30% of them (11352545) at an Elo of 1,629, ranking #325 globally.

Wins average 8 turns, with 139576 damage dealt and 0.6 player kills per game on average.

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Sources Scryfall · EDHREC · JSON API

Frequently Asked

What is Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin's win rate?
Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin has a 30% win rate across 3687 recorded Playgroup games (1135 wins, 2545 losses).
How long do winning games with Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin take?
Wins with Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin take on average 8 turns. Total tracked play time: about 1 month.
How many decks use Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin?
1,087 decks list Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin as their commander on Playgroup, of which 720 have played at least one recorded game.
Global rank
325
Wins by turn (avg.)
8
Elo rating
1629
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Averages

Misc. stats

Average damage per game 139576
Average commander damage per game 4
Average poison counters given per game 56512732
Average kills per game 0.6
Average turn length 2 minutes
No. decks for this commander 1087
No. decks with at least one game for this commander 720
No. games played with this commander 3687
Total hours played about 1 month
Community

Top 5 public decks

Rank Elo User Games Wins
1 1583 Edgar Markov 34 10
2 1565 Wraith31337 1 1
3 1540 Cujo_elperro 2 1
4 1533 Luis Ceròn 72 29
5 1530 Kbreezy 4 2
Outcomes

How does this commander win?

When Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin wins, 34.63% of wins come via non combat damage across tracked games with a recorded win condition.

Non Combat Damage
34.63%
Combat
26.36%
Combo
20.09%
Alternative
13.24%
Commander Damage
3.07%
Mill
2.25%
Poison
0.35%
Avg win turn 8.0 based on 1164 wins with recorded turn counts
Measured

Staples that win games for Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin

Cards that raise this deck's measured win rate the most, compared with Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin decks that leave them out.

+4.1 pp
Top card: Command Tower
# Card Lift
1
Command Tower
Command Tower 510 games
+4.1 pp
2
Storm-Kiln Artist
Storm-Kiln Artist 53 games
+3.1 pp
3
Seething Landscape
Seething Landscape 52 games
+0.8 pp
4
Ponder
Ponder 57 games
+0.2 pp

Measured win-rate lift against decks on the same commander without the card, ranked by the 95% lower bound. How this is measured

Table position

Does seating order matter?

Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin wins 38.56% of games from position 1 and 14.29% from position 6 across tracked games.

1
Seat 1
38.56% n=1014
2
Seat 2
32.55% n=1063
3
Seat 3
27.8% n=885
4
Seat 4
22.61% n=628
5
Seat 5
15.91% n=88
6
Seat 6
14.29% n=7
Opening hands

Do mulligans hurt this commander?

Across tracked games, Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin wins 29.87% after 0 mulligans and 50.0% after 5 mulligans.

0
0 mulligans
29.87% n=1073
1
1 mulligan
31.35% n=721
2
2 mulligans
32.14% n=336
3
3 mulligans
21.01% n=119
4
4 mulligans
26.32% n=38
5
5 mulligans
50.0% n=12
Player reports

How do players rate games with this commander?

Pilot rating

Pilots rate their own games with Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 3.74/5 on average, across 2417 self-reports.

3.74 / 5
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Opponent salt

When Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin wins, opponents flag the game as salty 61.8% of the time across 1165 tracked wins.

61.8 \%
Head to head

Best and worst matchups

Opposing commanders with at least ten tracked games against Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin. Pairs with fewer than 25 games are shown in italics; treat those as suggestive, not statistical.

Top 5 best matchups

Orvar, the All-Form commander art
66.67%
Abomination of Llanowar commander art
63.64%
Tuvasa the Sunlit commander art
60.0%
Elenda, the Dusk Rose commander art
60.0%
Gishath, Sun's Avatar commander art
59.26%

Top 5 worst matchups

Gonti, Canny Acquisitor commander art
0.0%
The Twelfth Doctor commander art
0.0%
The Master of Keys commander art
5.26%