Live Play Data

Aerith Gainsborough

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

975

Decks Running

429

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

75%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=227

12%

25%

16%

28%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 15

On curve 39% (56 / 227 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

The "good card" funnel

979 brought · 392 players

Brought to game

979

Ever drawn

227

Reached battlefield

170

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 44% 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.

≥ -3.7pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=157) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=630).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 24% (n=54).

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 -3.7pp to +10.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

255 instances

2.7%

Library

29.4%

Battlefield

36.1%

Graveyard

9.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

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

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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.