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Aether Gale

· Sorcery · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

206

Decks Running

127

In Decks

886

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Aether Gale

Sorcery

Return six target nonland permanents to their owners' hands.

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

Final zone distribution

67 instances

4.5%

Library

7.5%

Battlefield

49.3%

Graveyard

13.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Rootha, Mastering the Moment 57 decks
2 Zimone, Mystery Unraveler 8 decks
3 Ashling, Rekindled // Ashling, Rimebound 6 decks
4 The Emperor of Palamecia // The Lord Master of Hell 5 decks
5 Firkraag, Cunning Instigator 4 decks
6 Vivi Ornitier 4 decks
7 Hinata, Dawn-Crowned 3 decks
8 Eluge, the Shoreless Sea 2 decks
9 Jon Irenicus, Shattered One 2 decks
10 Muddle, the Ever-Changing 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

206 brought · 117 players

Brought to game

206

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ +7.1pp

Players who cast this card win 43% of the time (n=38) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=128).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 22% (n=15) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +22.8pp; 95% confidence interval +7.1pp to +38.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=38

11%

74%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 6 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 21% (4 / 38 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 35%

38 of 100 times cast 38%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

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Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.