Appa, Steadfast Guardian
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
Flash
Flying
When Appa enters, airbend any number of other target nonland permanents you control. (Exile them. While each one is exiled, its owner may cast it for {2} rather than its mana cost.)
Whenever you cast a spell from exile, create a 1/1 white Ally creature token.
Combos with Appa, Steadfast Guardian
The lines this card is part of, what it needs alongside it, and what the cards do together. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.
- Rasputin Dreamweaver Restoration Angel Infinite
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite colorless mana
- Infinite storm count
- Infinite creature tokens
- Infinite blinking of nonland permanents
- Restoration Angel Semblance Anvil Infinite
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite storm count
- Infinite creature tokens
- Sage of the Beyond Restoration Angel Infinite
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite storm count
- Infinite tapped creature tokens
- Commander Liara Portyr Restoration Angel Infinite
- Infinite artifact ETB
- Infinite artifact LTB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite storm count
- Infinite creature tokens
- Infinite blinking of nonland permanents
- Dazzling Theater // Prop Room Restoration Angel Infinite
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite storm count
- Infinite tapped creature tokens
- Displacer Kitten Chromatic Orrery Infinite
- Infinite artifact ETB
- Infinite artifact LTB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite colored mana
- Infinite colorless mana
- Infinite storm count
- Infinite creature tokens
- Infinite card draw
- Infinite draw triggers
- Urza's Incubator Aang, Airbending Master Infinite
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite storm count
- Infinite creature tokens
- Hoarding Broodlord Restoration Angel Infinite
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite storm count
- Infinite tapped creature tokens
Showing the 8 shortest and most explosive. This card appears in more than these. Follow any of them through to Commander Spellbook to browse the rest.
Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.
Rulings
5 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2025-10-02
Tokens exiled this way will cease to exist and cannot be cast.
- 2025-10-02
Since you are using an alternative cost to cast a spell from exile this way, you can't pay any other alternative costs. You can, however, pay additional costs, such as kicker costs. If the card has any mandatory additional costs, you must pay those.
- 2025-10-02
To airbend one or more permanents and/or spells means to exile each of those objects. For each card exiled this way, for as long as it's exiled, its owner may cast it from exile by paying 2 rather than paying its mana cost.
- 2025-10-02
If the spell you cast has X in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X.
- 2025-10-02
Lands exiled this way cannot be played from exile. (Lands that were animated by earthbend will be returned to the battlefield tapped when they're exiled.)
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Appa, Steadfast Guardian, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kellan, the Kid | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Bant 1 deck
Every version of Appa, Steadfast Guardian
3 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly. A printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall publishes none for some of them.
- Normal
- $6.05
- Foil
- $7.77
Promo
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- Foil
- $30.91
Inverted
- Normal
- $14.45
- Foil
- $16.75
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Appa, Steadfast Guardian. It runs a name search across every version, which covers the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.
Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only. No individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.
