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Aetherize

· Instant · Foundations (FDN)

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Times Brought

814

Decks Running

488

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

Aetherize

Instant

Return all attacking creatures to their owner's hand.

Foundations (FDN) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Alexandre Honoré

Final zone distribution

192 instances

2.1%

Library

4.2%

Battlefield

40.6%

Graveyard

3.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Hakbal of the Surging Soul 41 decks
2 The Swarmlord 25 decks
3 Zinnia, Valley's Voice 20 decks
4 Isperia, Supreme Judge 13 decks
5 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 13 decks
6 Tony Stark // The Invincible Iron Man 9 decks
7 Vnwxt, Verbose Host 8 decks
8 Alela, Cunning Conqueror 7 decks
9 Nekusar, the Mindrazer 7 decks
10 Eluge, the Shoreless Sea 6 decks

The "good card" funnel

815 brought · 425 players

Brought to game

815

Ever drawn

181

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -9.4pp

Players who cast this card win 20% of the time (n=63) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=491).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 34% (n=85) — 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 -3.0pp; 95% confidence interval -9.4pp to +3.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=75

68%

T6-9

20%

T10+

Median 8 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 16

On curve 8% (4 / 75 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 21%

75 of 100 times cast 75%

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

Frequently Asked

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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.