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Gaea's Cradle

Legendary Land · Urza's Saga (USG)

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Times Brought

929

Decks Running

447

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

261 instances

2.7%

Library

80.8%

Battlefield

5.0%

Graveyard

2.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness 19 decks
2 Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy 16 decks
3 The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl 14 decks
4 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 12 decks
5 Thranduil, the Elvenking 12 decks
6 Lumra, Bellow of the Woods 10 decks
7 Shroofus Sproutsire 9 decks
8 Thrasios, Triton Hero 8 decks
9 Flubs, the Fool 7 decks
10 Sliver Overlord 7 decks

The "good card" funnel

929 brought · 342 players

Brought to game

929

Ever drawn

252

Reached battlefield

228

Still on board at game end

211

Once cast, 93% 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.

≥ +3.1pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=183) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=513).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 15% (n=17) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +7.1pp; 95% confidence interval +3.1pp to +11.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=228

13%

15%

16%

11%

23%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4.0 P25 2 · P75 6 · max 14

Cast same turn as drawn 58%

1179 of 300 tracked games 99%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.