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Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin

Legendary Creature — Human Wizard // Legendary Creature — Avatar Wizard · {2}{U}{B}{R} · Black/Red/Blue commander

Whenever Kefka enters or attacks, each player discards a card. Then you draw a card for each card type among cards discarded this way. {8}: Each opponent sacrifices a permanent of their choice. Transform Kefka. Activate only as a sorcery. Flying Whenever an opponent loses life during your turn, you draw that many cards.

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What Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin actually does

Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.

• Triggered ability · attackWhenever Kefka enters or attacks, each player discards a card. Then you draw a card for each card type among cards discarded this way.
• Activated ability{8}: Each opponent sacrifices a permanent of their choice. Transform Kefka. Activate only as a sorcery.
• Triggered ability · otherWhenever an opponent loses life during your turn, you draw that many cards.
• Keyword · flyingflying

What a Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin deck needs

Plays as combat trigger. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.

• blink and recursion aimed at the commander itself (its value is its own enter trigger)
• drain and life-loss payoffs (the damage is not combat damage)
• haste, evasion and protection for the commander, and extra combats (its own attack is the engine)

The Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin deck plan

The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.

• 12× Life loss that is not combat damage — each opponent loses life, repeatably
• 6× Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise
• 6× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
• 8× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
• 4× Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers
• 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 2× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
• 1× Answer a whole board at once

Best cards for Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin

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