Live Play Data

Aether Gale

· Sorcery · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

802

Decks Running

358

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

70%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=142

13%

68%

T6-9

15%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 21

On curve 17% (19 / 142 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 32%

The "good card" funnel

802 brought · 325 players

Brought to game

802

Ever drawn

204

Reached battlefield

142

Still on board at game end

≥ +13.8pp

Players who cast this card win 44% of the time (n=139) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=535).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=58).

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 +22.2pp; 95% confidence interval +13.8pp to +30.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

232 instances

3.0%

Library

8.2%

Battlefield

51.3%

Graveyard

15.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Rootha, Mastering the Moment 129 decks
2 Zimone, Mystery Unraveler 27 decks
3 Firkraag, Cunning Instigator 23 decks
4 Ashling, Rekindled // Ashling, Rimebound 14 decks
5 Hinata, Dawn-Crowned 14 decks
6 The Emperor of Palamecia // The Lord Master of Hell 10 decks
7 Vivi Ornitier 7 decks
8 Zaffai, Thunder Conductor 6 decks
9 Saheeli, the Gifted 5 decks
10 Prismari, the Inspiration 4 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 780,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.