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Gaea's Gift

· Instant · The Brothers' War (BRO)

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Times Brought

539

Decks Running

251

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 Gift

Instant

Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. It gains reach, trample, hexproof, and indestructible until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

The Brothers' War (BRO) · Common · Illustrated by Olivier Bernard

Final zone distribution

92 instances

1.1%

Library

5.4%

Battlefield

46.7%

Graveyard

6.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Tifa Lockhart 18 decks
2 Pako, Arcane Retriever 12 decks
3 Wolverine, Best There Is 12 decks
4 Shroofus Sproutsire 9 decks
5 Xyris, the Writhing Storm 9 decks
6 Legolas, Master Archer 8 decks
7 Fynn, the Fangbearer 7 decks
8 Animar, Soul of Elements 6 decks
9 Bruce Banner // The Incredible Hulk 6 decks
10 Ygra, Eater of All 6 decks

The "good card" funnel

539 brought · 234 players

Brought to game

539

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -5.4pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=42) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=338).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 27% (n=31).

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 +2.6pp; 95% confidence interval -5.4pp to +10.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=48

21%

50%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 4% (1 / 48 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 17%

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.