Monk Gyatso card art

Monk Gyatso

Legendary Creature — Human Monk MV 4

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What it does

Whenever another creature you control becomes the target of a spell or ability, you may airbend that creature. (Exile it. While it's exiled, its owner may cast it for {2} rather than its mana cost.)

Combos with Monk Gyatso

Lines this card is part of — what it needs alongside it, and what the two of them do. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.

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

    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.)

  • 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

    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.

Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.

As a commander

Decks built with Monk Gyatso in the command zone.

Decks led 1
Games played 1
Wins 0
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games — not enough to publish a rate yet.

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Monk Gyatso, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 2
Games played 0
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games — not enough to publish a rate yet.
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Most played under

Commander Decks Games Win rate
Kellan, the Kid 1 0 —
Pantlaza, Sun-Favored 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Naya 1 deck
  • Bant 1 deck

Every version of Monk Gyatso

2 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 genuinely publishes none for some of them.

  • Monk Gyatso — Avatar: The Last Airbender Eternal, Extended Art

    Extended Art

    Avatar: The Last Airbender Eternal

    TLE · #173 · 2025

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    $7.06
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    $7.21

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  • Monk Gyatso — Avatar: The Last Airbender Eternal

    Avatar: The Last Airbender Eternal

    TLE · #81 · 2025

    Normal
    $7.36
    Foil
    $8.42

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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.