Live Play Data

Gaea's Cradle

Legendary Land · Urza's Saga (USG)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

2177

Decks Running

866

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

87%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=581

13%

19%

20%

12%

26%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 3 · P75 6 · max 13

Cast same turn as drawn 49%

The "good card" funnel

2178 brought · 572 players

Brought to game

2178

Ever drawn

668

Reached battlefield

581

Still on board at game end

531

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.

≥ +10.7pp

Players who cast this card win 38% of the time (n=524) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=1241).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 29% (n=70).

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 +15.0pp; 95% confidence interval +10.7pp to +19.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

712 instances

2.8%

Library

74.6%

Battlefield

8.4%

Graveyard

2.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy 25 decks
2 Lumra, Bellow of the Woods 25 decks
3 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness 17 decks
4 The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl 15 decks
5 Thranduil, the Elvenking 13 decks
6 Toph, the First Metalbender 13 decks
7 Witherbloom, the Balancer 13 decks
8 Flubs, the Fool 12 decks
9 Rin and Seri, Inseparable 12 decks
10 Teval, the Balanced Scale 12 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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.