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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.

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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
• Ability• 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 librar

What an Ao, the Dawn Sky deck needs

Plays as counters. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.

• sacrifice outlets and recursion for the commander (its own death is the payoff)
• +1/+1 counter producers and payoffs (its text places or reads +1/+1 counters)

The Ao, the Dawn Sky deck plan

The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.

• 10× Sacrifice a creature for no mana, repeatably
• 8× Evasion that does NOT target or attach — for a commander your own auras and equipment cannot legally touch
• 23× 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
• 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 1× Answer a whole board at once
• 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.

Combos with Ao, the Dawn Sky

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Ao, the Dawn Sky is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

• Ao, the Dawn Sky + Mortuary + Clever Impersonator3 decks
• Ao, the Dawn Sky + Mortuary + Phyrexian Metamorph2 decks
• Ao, the Dawn Sky + Mortuary + Glasspool Mimic2 decks
• Ao, the Dawn Sky + Mortuary + Phantasmal Image2 decks
• Ao, the Dawn Sky + Mortuary + Evil Twin1 decks
• Ao, the Dawn Sky + Mortuary + Flesh Duplicate1 decks

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