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Gaius van Baelsar

· Legendary Creature — Human Soldier · Final Fantasy (FIN)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

119

Decks Running

In Decks

378

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Gaius van Baelsar

Legendary Creature — Human Soldier

When Gaius van Baelsar enters, choose one — • Each player sacrifices a creature token of their choice. • Each player sacrifices a nontoken creature of their choice. • Each player sacrifices an enchantment of their choice.

3 / 2

Final Fantasy (FIN) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Nino Is

Final zone distribution

35 instances

17.1%

Battlefield

48.6%

Graveyard

5.7%

Exile

28.6%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 22 decks
2 Terra, Herald of Hope 8 decks
3 Henzie "Toolbox" Torre 6 decks
4 Vincent Valentine // Galian Beast 6 decks
5 Alesha, Who Laughs at Fate 2 decks
6 Meren of Clan Nel Toth 2 decks
7 Zenos yae Galvus // Shinryu, Transcendent Rival 2 decks
8 Zodiark, Umbral God 2 decks
9 Ardyn, the Usurper 1 decks
10 Athreos, God of Passage 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

119 brought · 59 players

Brought to game

119

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 30% 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.

≥ -11.6pp

Players who cast this card win 47% of the time (n=17) , vs 34% when it never left the library (n=72).

Observed gap +13.0pp; 95% confidence interval -11.6pp to +37.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=20

15%

70%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 7.5 P25 6 · P75 8 · max 13

On curve 20% (3 / 20 cast on T4)

20 of 100 times cast 20%

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.