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Ao, the Dawn Sky

· Legendary Creature — Dragon Spirit · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

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Times Brought

116

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

Ao, the Dawn Sky

Legendary Creature — Dragon Spirit

Flying, vigilance When Ao dies, choose one — • Look at the top seven cards of your library. Put any number of nonland permanent cards with total mana value 4 or less from among them onto the battlefield. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. • Put two +1/+1 counters on each permanent you control that's a creature or Vehicle.

5 / 4

Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) · Mythic · Illustrated by Chris Rahn

Final zone distribution

34 instances

32.4%

Battlefield

38.2%

Graveyard

2.9%

Exile

14.7%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

116 brought · 70 players

Brought to game

116

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -0.6pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=15) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=62).

Observed gap +12.4pp; 95% confidence interval -0.6pp to +25.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

16 of 100 times cast 16%

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 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.