Live Play Data

Aethersquall Ancient

· Creature — Leviathan · Kaladesh (KLD)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

147

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

61%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=23

13%

65%

T6-9

17%

T10+

Median 8 P25 7 · P75 8 · max 11

On curve 48% (6 / 23 cast on T7) Cast same turn as drawn 36%

The "good card" funnel

151 brought · 76 players

Brought to game

151

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 35% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.

≥ -15.0pp

Players who cast this card win 18% of the time (n=22) , vs 17% when it never left the library (n=91).

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 +1.1pp; 95% confidence interval -15.0pp to +17.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

44 instances

2.3%

Library

18.2%

Battlefield

31.8%

Graveyard

15.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Satya, Aetherflux Genius 24 decks
2 Saheeli, Radiant Creator 23 decks
3 Dr. Madison Li 6 decks
4 Liberty Prime, Recharged 4 decks
5 Rex, Cyber-Hound 3 decks
6 Pia Nalaar, Chief Mechanic 2 decks
7 Runo Stromkirk // Krothuss, Lord of the Deep 2 decks
8 Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait 1 decks
9 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice 1 decks
10 Braids, Conjurer Adept 1 decks

Card text

Aethersquall Ancient

Creature — Leviathan

Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, you get {E}

(three energy counters). Pay eight {E}

: Return all other creatures to their owners' hands. Activate only as a sorcery.

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Kaladesh (KLD) · Rare · Illustrated by Sam Burley

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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.