Live Play Data

Gaea's Cradle

Legendary Land · Urza's Saga (USG)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

3111

Decks Running

1186

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

87%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=823

13%

18%

19%

13%

26%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 3 · P75 6 · max 15

Cast same turn as drawn 48%

The "good card" funnel

3114 brought · 802 players

Brought to game

3114

Ever drawn

945

Reached battlefield

823

Still on board at game end

745

Once cast, 91% 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.

≥ +10.6pp

Players who cast this card win 37% of the time (n=736) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=1767).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 31% (n=98).

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 +14.2pp; 95% confidence interval +10.6pp to +17.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

1004 instances

2.8%

Library

74.2%

Battlefield

9.4%

Graveyard

2.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy 36 decks
2 Lumra, Bellow of the Woods 31 decks
3 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness 24 decks
4 Witherbloom, the Balancer 20 decks
5 The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl 19 decks
6 Thranduil, the Elvenking 18 decks
7 Toph, the First Metalbender 18 decks
8 Uugguu, the Omniplasm 17 decks
9 Flubs, the Fool 16 decks
10 Sisay, Weatherlight Captain 16 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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.