Live Play Data

Maddening Cacophony

· Sorcery · Zendikar Rising (ZNR)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

769

Decks Running

354

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

61%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=87

11%

71%

T6-9

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 12

On curve 3% (1 / 87 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 32%

The "good card" funnel

769 brought · 321 players

Brought to game

769

Ever drawn

143

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -5.1pp

Players who cast this card win 20% of the time (n=83) , vs 17% when it never left the library (n=498).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 16% (n=50).

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 +3.4pp; 95% confidence interval -5.1pp to +12.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

186 instances

4.3%

Library

4.8%

Battlefield

56.5%

Graveyard

7.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Captain N'ghathrod 54 decks
2 The Wise Mothman 36 decks
3 The Mindskinner 34 decks
4 Bruvac the Grandiloquent 30 decks
5 Hope Estheim 29 decks
6 Umbris, Fear Manifest 27 decks
7 Phenax, God of Deception 20 decks
8 Homer, the Hermit 17 decks
9 Jodah, the Unifier 14 decks
10 Saruman of Many Colors 9 decks

Card text

Maddening Cacophony

Sorcery

Kicker

Each opponent mills eight cards. If this spell was kicked, instead each opponent mills half their library, rounded up.

Zendikar Rising (ZNR) · Rare · Illustrated by Magali Villeneuve

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.