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Ao, the Dawn Sky

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

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Times Brought

289

Decks Running

174

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

—

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

71 instances

38.0%

Battlefield

33.8%

Graveyard

8.5%

Exile

19.7%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

289 brought · 164 players

Brought to game

289

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 61% 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.

≥ +6.8pp

Players who cast this card win 37% of the time (n=33) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=155).

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 +15.2pp; 95% confidence interval +6.8pp to +23.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=47

11%

13%

62%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 12

On curve 30% (6 / 47 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 15%

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.