Universes Beyond
Avatar closed out 2025 with an unusually mechanic-dense set: four brand-new keywords, one per bending discipline, each doing something genuinely different rather than being a reskin of the same idea.
It has no Commander precons at all — but the set itself contains over a hundred legal commanders across every rarity and power level, which is arguably a better deal for Commander players than two fixed decks would have been.
Themes
Airbending
A keyword action: exile a permanent or spell, and while it stays exiled its owner may cast it by paying {2} instead of its mana cost. Removal that hands the card back on a discount — disruptive and political at once.
Earthbending
Choose a land you control; it becomes a 0/0 creature with haste that is still a land, then gets +1/+1 counters equal to the earthbend number. Manlands you make on demand, with all the risk that implies.
Waterbending
A cost-paying method: for each generic mana in a waterbending cost, you may tap an untapped artifact or creature you control instead of paying that mana. Convoke's cousin, extended to artifacts.
Firebending
Always carries a number. Whenever a creature you control with firebending attacks, you add that much red mana — and crucially you don't lose it when combat ends, so it funds a post-combat main phase.
Limited
A full ten-pair format, one for every combination, each themed on a bending style: waterbenders control and react, firebenders push tempo, earthbenders ramp and take over late, airbenders manoeuvre around problems. The colour balance came out unusually even, with nearly every pair viable.
All ten two-colour pairs
Full ten-pair format
Every pairing is supported and, unusually, no colour lagged badly behind. Our sources described the archetypes by bending style rather than naming all ten pairs, so we've kept the summary at that level instead of inventing the specifics.
FAQ
November 21, 2025, with prerelease events from November 14, under the set code TLA. It was the last Magic set of 2025.
Airbending exiles a permanent or spell and lets its owner cast it for {2} while exiled. Earthbending turns a land you control into a 0/0 hasty creature that is still a land, with +1/+1 counters equal to the earthbend number. Waterbending lets you tap untapped artifacts or creatures instead of paying generic mana. Firebending adds red mana whenever a creature with it attacks, and that mana survives the end of combat.
No. It shipped without any Commander preconstructed decks — but the set itself contains over a hundred legal commanders across every rarity, so there is plenty to build with.
All ten two-colour pairs are supported, themed by bending style: waterbenders control and react, firebenders push tempo, earthbenders ramp into a strong late game, and airbenders manoeuvre around problems. The colour balance came out unusually even.
All card names, art, and mechanics belong to Wizards of the Coast. Avatar: The Last Airbender released on Nov 21, 2025; details reflect the set as published. Sources: Wizards of the Coast set pages and release notes, Draftsim, Untapped.gg.
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