Live Play Data

Gaius van Baelsar

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

193

Decks Running

107

Median Cast Turn

7.5

Drawn → Played

70%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=28

11%

71%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 7.5 P25 6 · P75 8 · max 13

On curve 14% (3 / 28 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 40%

The "good card" funnel

193 brought · 96 players

Brought to game

193

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 36% 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.

≥ -5.5pp

Players who cast this card win 43% of the time (n=23) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=125).

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 +15.3pp; 95% confidence interval -5.5pp to +36.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

45 instances

22.2%

Battlefield

51.1%

Graveyard

4.4%

Exile

22.2%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 42 decks
2 Terra, Herald of Hope 14 decks
3 Vincent Valentine // Galian Beast 12 decks
4 Henzie "Toolbox" Torre 6 decks
5 Ardyn, the Usurper 3 decks
6 Alesha, Who Laughs at Fate 2 decks
7 Edea, Possessed Sorceress 2 decks
8 Fumulus, the Infestation 2 decks
9 Meren of Clan Nel Toth 2 decks
10 Super Shredder 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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.