Live Play Data

Living Laser

· Legendary Creature — Elemental Villain · Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

576

Decks Running

296

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

46%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=71

11%

14%

51%

T6-9

21%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 13

On curve 28% (10 / 71 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 23%

The "good card" funnel

578 brought · 270 players

Brought to game

578

Ever drawn

153

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 48% 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.

≥ -17.3pp

Players who cast this card win 16% of the time (n=62) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=329).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=73).

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 -8.1pp; 95% confidence interval -17.3pp to +1.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

166 instances

3.0%

Library

20.5%

Battlefield

44.6%

Graveyard

9.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 258 decks
2 Loki, the Deceiver 10 decks
3 Norman Osborn // Green Goblin 8 decks
4 Clive, Ifrit's Dominant // Ifrit, Warden of Inferno 3 decks
5 Thanos, the Mad Titan 3 decks
6 Astonishing Spider-Man 2 decks
7 Captain Howler, Sea Scourge 2 decks
8 Amber Gristle O'Maul 1 decks
9 Anje Falkenrath 1 decks
10 Balin, Loremaster 1 decks

Card text

Living Laser

Legendary Creature — Elemental Villain

Haste Whenever Living Laser attacks, for each card you've discarded this turn, create a token that's a copy of Living Laser, except the token isn't legendary. The tokens enter tapped and attacking. Exile the tokens at the beginning of the next end step.

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Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC) · Rare · Illustrated by Nathaniel Himawan

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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.