Live Play Data

Gaius van Baelsar

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

251

Decks Running

140

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

73%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=40

15%

10%

65%

T6-9

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 13

On curve 18% (6 / 40 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 27%

The "good card" funnel

251 brought · 128 players

Brought to game

251

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 28% 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.

≥ -4.2pp

Players who cast this card win 39% of the time (n=35) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=161).

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 +12.7pp; 95% confidence interval -4.2pp to +29.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

62 instances

3.2%

Library

17.7%

Battlefield

53.2%

Graveyard

4.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 51 decks
2 Vincent Valentine // Galian Beast 20 decks
3 Terra, Herald of Hope 17 decks
4 Henzie "Toolbox" Torre 7 decks
5 Zenos yae Galvus // Shinryu, Transcendent Rival 5 decks
6 Ardyn, the Usurper 3 decks
7 Sephiroth, Planet's Heir 3 decks
8 Zodiark, Umbral God 3 decks
9 Alesha, Who Laughs at Fate 2 decks
10 Avacyn, Angel of Horror 2 decks

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.

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

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.