Live Play Data

Aether Gale

· Sorcery · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

474

Decks Running

243

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

65%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=84

10%

71%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 15% (8 / 84 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

The "good card" funnel

474 brought · 224 players

Brought to game

474

Ever drawn

129

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ +17.1pp

Players who cast this card win 49% of the time (n=77) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=291).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 21% (n=41).

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 +28.4pp; 95% confidence interval +17.1pp to +39.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

148 instances

4.1%

Library

8.8%

Battlefield

50.0%

Graveyard

14.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Rootha, Mastering the Moment 94 decks
2 Zimone, Mystery Unraveler 19 decks
3 Firkraag, Cunning Instigator 12 decks
4 The Emperor of Palamecia // The Lord Master of Hell 10 decks
5 Ashling, Rekindled // Ashling, Rimebound 9 decks
6 Hinata, Dawn-Crowned 6 decks
7 Vivi Ornitier 5 decks
8 Prismari, the Inspiration 4 decks
9 Teferi, Temporal Archmage 4 decks
10 Jon Irenicus, Shattered One 3 decks

Card text

Aether Gale

Sorcery

Return six target nonland permanents to their owners' hands.

Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Jack Wang

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 710,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.