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Best Manabase for

Ao, the Dawn Sky

Legendary Creature — Dragon Spirit

· Mono-White

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.

Budget

Filters

No tap-lands Fetchable only Snow basics

36 lands · total $95.64 budget: $100

Composition 27 Basics 6 Fetch Lands 2 Other Nonbasic 1 Hideaway Lands (Lorwyn)

EDHREC hasn’t published enough decks for Ao, the Dawn Sky yet, so this manabase isn’t drawn from real-deck inclusion data. It’s ranked by a land-quality heuristic instead — Commander staples and the strongest in-budget cycles first, then basics split across the identity. A solid baseline to start from, not a tuned list.

Commander Staples

$3.29 2

Reliquary Tower

Utility: No hand size limit

$2.94

Rogue's Passage

Utility: Unblockable trick

$0.35

Cycle Picks · Best to Worst

$92.35 7

Basics

$1.89 27

About This Manabase

Ao, the Dawn Sky is a Mono-White commander with a W color identity, so any land that produces only those colors is fair game. Our auto-built manabase above starts at the Optimized $100 tier. EDHREC doesn’t yet have deck data for Ao, the Dawn Sky, so picks are ranked by a land-quality heuristic — Commander staples and the strongest in-budget cycles first (shocks and untapped fixing, dropping to scry and tap-duals as the cap tightens), with the rest filled by basics split across the identity. The picker always includes Commander staples like Reliquary Tower, Rogue's Passage when they fit your identity — these are nearly auto-includes in any EDH deck. From the catalogued cycles, the picker pulled Windswept Heath, Flooded Strand, Marsh Flats, Arid Mesa , plus 3 more for Ao, the Dawn Sky's manabase.

Pick a tier above to reshape the manabase. The Budget ($25) tier leans on basics and the cheapest utility lands; Optimized ($100) adds the best mid-priced duals and untapped fixing the budget allows; Unlimited drops the price cap so premium duals and in-identity fetches come in. Filter out tap-lands for faster decks, or pin yourself to fetchable lands for a fetch-heavy ramp shell.