Live Play Data

Gaea's Cradle

Legendary Land · Urza's Saga (USG)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

4199

Decks Running

1509

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

86%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=1057

13%

18%

19%

14%

26%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 3 · P75 6 · max 15

Cast same turn as drawn 48%

The "good card" funnel

4202 brought · 992 players

Brought to game

4202

Ever drawn

1225

Reached battlefield

1057

Still on board at game end

968

Once cast, 92% 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.

≥ +11.9pp

Players who cast this card win 39% of the time (n=945) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=2461).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 30% (n=140).

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 +15.1pp; 95% confidence interval +11.9pp to +18.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

1309 instances

2.7%

Library

73.9%

Battlefield

9.3%

Graveyard

2.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy 46 decks
2 Lumra, Bellow of the Woods 33 decks
3 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness 32 decks
4 Sisay, Weatherlight Captain 25 decks
5 Witherbloom, the Balancer 24 decks
6 Toph, the First Metalbender 23 decks
7 The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl 22 decks
8 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 20 decks
9 Flubs, the Fool 20 decks
10 Baylen, the Haymaker 19 decks

Card text

Gaea's Cradle

Legendary Land

: Add

for each creature you control.

Urza's Saga (USG) · Rare · Illustrated by Mark Zug

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 750,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.