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Aether Gale

· Sorcery · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

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Times Brought

154

Decks Running

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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

38 instances

5.3%

Battlefield

65.8%

Graveyard

15.8%

Exile

13.2%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Rootha, Mastering the Moment 41 decks
2 Zimone, Mystery Unraveler 5 decks
3 The Emperor of Palamecia // The Lord Master of Hell 3 decks
4 Zaffai, Thunder Conductor 3 decks
5 Ashling, Rekindled // Ashling, Rimebound 2 decks
6 Shiko and Narset, Unified 2 decks
7 Veyran, Voice of Duality 2 decks
8 Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle 1 decks
9 Baral, Chief of Compliance 1 decks
10 Brago, King Eternal 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

155 brought · 80 players

Brought to game

155

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -2.2pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=24) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=92).

Observed gap +8.3pp; 95% confidence interval -2.2pp to +18.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=26

23%

54%

T6-9

15%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 13

On curve 31% (6 / 26 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 43%

26 of 100 times cast 26%

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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.