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Aether Gale

· Sorcery · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

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Times Brought

422

Decks Running

217

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

111 instances

4.5%

Library

9.0%

Battlefield

53.2%

Graveyard

12.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Rootha, Mastering the Moment 85 decks
2 Zimone, Mystery Unraveler 19 decks
3 Firkraag, Cunning Instigator 12 decks
4 The Emperor of Palamecia // The Lord Master of Hell 5 decks
5 Whtz, the Bibliophile 5 decks
6 Zaffai, Thunder Conductor 5 decks
7 Ashling, Rekindled // Ashling, Rimebound 4 decks
8 Saheeli, the Gifted 4 decks
9 Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer 3 decks
10 Quandrix, the Proof 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

423 brought · 198 players

Brought to game

423

Ever drawn

100

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ +3.9pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=60) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=225).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 32% (n=19).

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 +10.6pp; 95% confidence interval +3.9pp to +17.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=77

13%

64%

T6-9

17%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 8 · max 15

On curve 19% (10 / 77 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 35%

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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.