Live Play Data

Laughing Mad

· Instant · Final Fantasy (FIN)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

485

Decks Running

260

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

63%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=78

12%

23%

45%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 12

On curve 10% (6 / 78 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 40%

The "good card" funnel

488 brought · 234 players

Brought to game

488

Ever drawn

123

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ +7.9pp

Players who cast this card win 37% of the time (n=69) , vs 18% when it never left the library (n=292).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=40).

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 +19.2pp; 95% confidence interval +7.9pp to +30.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

139 instances

3.6%

Library

2.2%

Battlefield

64.0%

Graveyard

20.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Terra, Herald of Hope 76 decks
2 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 29 decks
3 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 20 decks
4 Fire Lord Azula 17 decks
5 Norman Osborn // Green Goblin 16 decks
6 Celes, Rune Knight 7 decks
7 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 5 decks
8 Joshua, Phoenix's Dominant // Phoenix, Warden of Fire 5 decks
9 Vivi Ornitier 5 decks
10 Quintorius, History Chaser 4 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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.