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Aerith Gainsborough

· Legendary Creature — Human Cleric · Final Fantasy (FIN)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

231

Decks Running

118

In Decks

865

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Aerith Gainsborough

Legendary Creature — Human Cleric

Lifelink Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on Aerith Gainsborough. When Aerith Gainsborough dies, put X +1/+1 counters on each legendary creature you control, where X is the number of +1/+1 counters on Aerith Gainsborough.

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Final Fantasy (FIN) · Rare · Illustrated by Nakamura8

Final zone distribution

63 instances

3.2%

Library

27.0%

Battlefield

30.2%

Graveyard

9.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Hope Estheim 12 decks
2 Aerith Gainsborough 6 decks
3 Oloro, Ageless Ascetic 6 decks
4 Ardbert, Warrior of Darkness 5 decks
5 Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER 5 decks
6 Serah Farron // Crystallized Serah 5 decks
7 Bre of Clan Stoutarm 4 decks
8 Joshua, Phoenix's Dominant // Phoenix, Warden of Fire 4 decks
9 Cloud, Midgar Mercenary 3 decks
10 Jodah, the Unifier 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

231 brought · 111 players

Brought to game

231

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 34% 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.

≥ -19.5pp

Players who cast this card win 22% of the time (n=32) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=150).

Observed gap -4.4pp; 95% confidence interval -19.5pp to +10.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=35

17%

26%

17%

29%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 11

On curve 43% (9 / 35 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 26%

35 of 100 times cast 35%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.