Today, Magic: The Gathering gave a first look at a number of additional cards coming to their Avatar: The Last Airbender expansion. Coming hot off the heels of Final Fantasy, Avatar: The Last Airbender is another fan favorite IP to get the Magic: The Gathering treatment, most excitedly, this first look also explained how the different types of bending work as game mechanics.
MTG Avatar: The Last Airbender Set Details
Avatar: The Last Airbender is coming to Magic: The Gathering on November 21st, 2025. It will contain cards that reference events throughout the original Avatar series following Aang, the last airbender on his journey to develop his powers to live up to the name of Avatar and stop the Fire Nation’s assault against the world.
We got to see cards detailing major moments in Avatar history from Aang’s Iceberg, where he was discovered at the beginning of the series, to his Earthbending Lessons with Toph, getting to see enemies grow with Redirect Lightning, and eventually become allies as Fire Lord Zuko.
There are cards here for the casual fans, all the way down to those who will get a chuckle out of that one guy who got so excited to see the Avatar he began to foam at the mouth…
The set will come in a variety of formats, and I’ve listed below their MSRP:
- Play Booster: $6.99
- 14 cards and 1 helper or double-sided token
- Collector Booster: $37.99
- 15 cards and 1 art card or traditional foil double-sided token
- Jumpstart Booster: $6.99
- Bundle: $69.99
- 9x Play Boosters
- 15 traditional foil basic lands
- 15 non-foil basic lands
- 2 reference cards
- 1 foil promo card
- 1 oversized spindown life counter
- Commander’s Bundle: $109.99
- 9x Play Boosters
- 1x Collector Booster
- 5 non-foil promo cards
- 15 traditional foil basic lands
- 15 non-foil basic lands
- 1 Click-Wheel
- Scene Box: $41.99
- 3x Play Boosters
- 6x foil borderless scene cards
- 6 Art cards
- 1 Display Easel
- Beginner Box: $34.99
- 10 themed Jumpstart half-decks
- 5 non-foil tokens
- 2 gameboard playmats
- 2 how to play guides
- 2 reference cards
- 2 spindown dice
- 1 reference guide booklet
MTG Avatar: The Last Airbender Legal
It was outlined that all of the cards that have the Avatar: The Last Airbender set code of TLA will be legal in all formats, and those with TLE will be commander, legacy, and vintage legal. In addition, any individual TLE cards are legal where already available in other formats.
Bending Mechanics | MTG x ATLA
A unique aspect of the story of Avatar: The Last Airbender is in the bending mechanics, where characters can be born with the ability to manipulate Water, Earth, Air, and Fire. These mechanics are coming to Magic: The Gathering with card abilities that invoke bending those elements.
Magic: The Gathering Waterbending
Waterbending allows you to set a base power and toughness across your field. In Katara, Water Tribe’s Hope, we see that by using Waterbending Katara can “allow for creatures you control to have a base power and toughness X/X until end of turn.”
With a strong amount of mana on your bench this could allow you to take normally weak creatures and buff them to deal big damage all at once. The ability also mentions “you can tap your artifacts and creatures to help. Each one pays for 1 mana.”
Magic: The Gathering Earthbending
Earthbending lets you turn your lands into land creatures for as long as they survive. Much like an Earthbender, like Toph, the First Metalbender was able to hurl rocks you can activate Earthbending to turn your land into a 0/0 creature and add two +1/+1 tokens to it.
Thematically, this makes sense, and there couldn’t have been any other way to adapt this ability to the mechanics of Magic: The Gathering. Additionally, if that land dies or is exiled it just goes back to being a land.
Magic: The Gathering Airbending
Airbending is interesting in that it pays very close attention to the pacifist nature of the Airbenders in that it “helps you control the board without getting violent.”
Our example of Airbending is Appa, Steadfast Guardian. On entry you can airbend any of your non-land permanents by exiling them. To bring them back you pay 2 mana and when you cast a spell in this way Appa, Steadfast Guardian allows you to create a 1/1 white Ally creature token.
Definitely a more complex mechanic, forcing you to take things off the board and bring them back to bolster up your defences.
Magic: The Gathering Firebending
Firebending is all about aggression and giving yourself a number of additional fire mana for use in Combat. Fire Lord Zuko lets him create X fire mana representative of his current power, while Fire Lord Sozen creates a standard 3.
This red mana is only around for as long as combat, but with Enchantment’s like Fated Firepower, you can immediately capitalize on it.
Special Card Treatments
It wouldn’t be a new Magic The Gathering set without some unique art treatments. Some specific artwork that was called out includes the Borderless Raised Foil Avatar Aang with art by series creator, Bryan Konietzko. There will also be Borderless Double-Faced Sagas like The Rise of Sozen, Borderless Field Notes like Momo, Friendly Flyer, Elemental Frame Cards like Redirect Lightning and Katara, Water Tribe’s Hope.
For those who enjoy collecting a variety of different and unique lands from across the different sets there will also be a series of full-art Appa basic lands. These will depict “various moments during Aang’s journey.”
Avatar: The Last Airbender Release Schedule
While the set itself isn’t too far off it was also revealed when we can expect to see more cards, and get our hands on them ourselves. The release schedule for the Avatar: The Last Airbender set is as follows:
- Magic: The Gathering® | Avatar: The Last Airbender™: A First Look: This happened today!
- Magic: The Gathering | Avatar: The Last Airbender Debut Stream: October 28
- Full Card Image Gallery: November 7
- Prerelease Events: November 14–20
- MTG Arena Release Date: November 18
- Tabletop Release Date: November 21
- Magic World Championship 31: December 5–7
- Magic Spotlight: The Avatar: January 9–11, 2026
