Arcane Foundry › Commanders › Ao, the Dawn Sky

Ao, the Dawn Sky

Legendary Creature — Dragon Spirit · {3}{W}{W} · White commander

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.

Build an Ao, the Dawn Sky deck →

What Ao, the Dawn Sky actually does

Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.

• Triggered ability · deathWhen Ao dies, choose one —
• Keyword · flyingflying
• Keyword · vigilancevigilance

What an Ao, the Dawn Sky deck wants

The plan the Forge derives for this commander: the roles it fills and how many of each.

• 8× Evasion that does NOT target or attach — for a commander your own auras and equipment cannot legally touch
• 8× Sacrifice a creature for no mana, repeatably
• 25× Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
• 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 1× Answer a whole board at once
• 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 7× Refill your hand
• 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
• 11× Get ahead on mana

Best cards for Ao, the Dawn Sky

Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.

Build this deck in the Arcane Forge →

Arcane Foundry is free to join and every tool is included: the Arcane Forge deck builder, the ARCANE Analyzer that scores a deck by simulating games rather than counting staples, a card scanner, a collection vault, and live webcam Commander tables. Read the guide · Browse all commanders · Pricing