Live Play Data

Aether Gale

· Sorcery · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

338

Decks Running

193

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

62%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=55

73%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 16% (5 / 55 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 36%

The "good card" funnel

338 brought · 176 players

Brought to game

338

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ +6.3pp

Players who cast this card win 43% of the time (n=50) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=199).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 18% (n=28).

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 +19.8pp; 95% confidence interval +6.3pp to +33.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

105 instances

3.8%

Library

6.7%

Battlefield

52.4%

Graveyard

12.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Rootha, Mastering the Moment 76 decks
2 Zimone, Mystery Unraveler 13 decks
3 Firkraag, Cunning Instigator 10 decks
4 Ashling, Rekindled // Ashling, Rimebound 9 decks
5 The Emperor of Palamecia // The Lord Master of Hell 8 decks
6 Hinata, Dawn-Crowned 5 decks
7 Vivi Ornitier 5 decks
8 Jon Irenicus, Shattered One 3 decks
9 Prismari, the Inspiration 3 decks
10 Teferi, Temporal Archmage 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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.