Live Play Data

Laughing Mad

· Instant · Final Fantasy (FIN)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

901

Decks Running

434

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

60%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=137

11%

21%

49%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 11% (12 / 137 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 30%

The "good card" funnel

904 brought · 386 players

Brought to game

904

Ever drawn

228

Reached battlefield

137

Still on board at game end

≥ +4.7pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=126) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=548).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 20% (n=80).

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 +13.0pp; 95% confidence interval +4.7pp to +21.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

264 instances

3.0%

Library

1.5%

Battlefield

62.9%

Graveyard

19.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Terra, Herald of Hope 120 decks
2 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 46 decks
3 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 35 decks
4 Norman Osborn // Green Goblin 26 decks
5 Fire Lord Azula 19 decks
6 Celes, Rune Knight 12 decks
7 Vivi Ornitier 8 decks
8 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 7 decks
9 Extus, Oriq Overlord // Awaken the Blood Avatar 6 decks
10 Mog, Moogle Warrior 6 decks

Card text

Laughing Mad

Instant

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card. Draw two cards. Flashback {3}

(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost and any additional costs. Then exile it.)

Final Fantasy (FIN) · Common · Illustrated by RARE ENGINE

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.