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Gaea's Cradle

Legendary Land · Urza's Saga (USG)

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Times Brought

2367

Decks Running

1110

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

Card text

Gaea's Cradle

Legendary Land

: Add

for each creature you control.

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

Final zone distribution

651 instances

3.1%

Library

81.6%

Battlefield

5.4%

Graveyard

1.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy 38 decks
2 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness 29 decks
3 The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl 28 decks
4 Lumra, Bellow of the Woods 27 decks
5 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 21 decks
6 Thrasios, Triton Hero 21 decks
7 Thranduil, the Elvenking 20 decks
8 Flubs, the Fool 18 decks
9 Animar, Soul of Elements 16 decks
10 Rin and Seri, Inseparable 16 decks

The "good card" funnel

2367 brought · 795 players

Brought to game

2367

Ever drawn

624

Reached battlefield

565

Still on board at game end

531

Once cast, 94% 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.

≥ +4.7pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=452) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=1248).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=44).

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 +7.3pp; 95% confidence interval +4.7pp to +9.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=565

13%

16%

18%

15%

10%

22%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 2 · P75 6 · max 15

Cast same turn as drawn 54%

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.