Live Play Data

Aerith Gainsborough

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

484

Decks Running

241

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

74%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=105

12%

30%

16%

19%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 4 P25 3 · P75 6 · max 15

On curve 49% (32 / 105 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 26%

The "good card" funnel

488 brought · 231 players

Brought to game

488

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

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.

≥ -10.8pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=69) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=330).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 16% (n=24).

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 -0.5pp; 95% confidence interval -10.8pp to +9.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

113 instances

3.5%

Library

28.3%

Battlefield

35.4%

Graveyard

8.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Hope Estheim 30 decks
2 Ardbert, Warrior of Darkness 15 decks
3 Oloro, Ageless Ascetic 11 decks
4 Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER 10 decks
5 Trostani, Selesnya's Voice 10 decks
6 Bre of Clan Stoutarm 8 decks
7 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 8 decks
8 Betor, Ancestor's Voice 7 decks
9 Minwu, White Mage 7 decks
10 Serah Farron // Crystallized Serah 7 decks

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

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.