The First Looks For MTG: Avatar: The Last Airbender Are Here

Forbes

3 days ago

The IPs are flowing fast into the Magic: The Gathering universe. On the heels of the Final Fantasy and Spider-Man expansions enters Avatar: The Last Airbender. Avatar Aang makes his Magic: The Gathering debut with plenty of bending, new mechanics, and some really awesome battle pose and raised foil cards. Let's take a quick look at what we know so far.
Bend it like Aang
If you like airbending, waterbending, earthbending, firebending, and any bending that isn't Pilates related, then you are going to love the new mechanics in this expansion. And the cards that highlight these abilities.
Airbending allows you to exile your own permanents with the ability to pay two mana to cast it from exile and create tokens as a result. Waterbend is attached to some spells and abilities, and kind of plays off convoke as it allows you to tap artifacts and creatures to help pay its cost. Earthbending appears to mostly target lands (hence, earthbending) that turns them into creatures with counters. Firebending is a keyword ability, adding mana during attacks that lasts until the end of combat.
It's possible to activate all the bending on a single turn, in which case (if you have Avatar Aang on the playmat) you can transform Avatar Aang into Aang, Master of Elements, which has some crazy good abilities. This card is going to be a pretty awesome Commander.
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Borderless Boosters
With Magic cards, it's not all about the mythic cards with high resell value or new mechanics. Since the beginning, it's been about the art. This really hopped into overdrive with the Phyrexia expansion, bringing new art styles and different types of foils to the forefront.
With Avatar: The Last Airbender, we have a borderless raised foil Avatar Aang, only available in collector boosters (good luck) leading the pack. Next up are borderless battle pose cards. They can be found in play boosters and collector boosters, and come in a neon ink foil found only in collector boosters. Again, good luck. But the art on these cards will be worth the hunt.
More common will be the borderless double-sided saga cards and borderless field notes cards, appearing in non-foil and foil much like many cards before them. The field notes cards remind me of the schematic cards from the Brothers' War expansion.
Next up we have elemental frame cards. Borderless, with a little extra flair on the edges. This is something that Magic: The Gathering has been doing for a while, adding a bit of the expansion's aesthetic to the set with these alternate cards. This is a good way to really immerse you in the world of Avatar: The Last Airbender, since it has the look and feel of the universe.
Finally, lands. There's always some new land art, and if you are a collector who has several boxes of land like some of us, you can always use some new land art. These full art land cards might be basic in function but wildly stunning in visuals.
Important Avatar: The Last Airbender dates
Up until the release date later this year, there's a few dates and prices to pay attention to. Notably, the prerelease events run November 14th - 20th, MTG Arena releases on November 18th, and Magic: The Gathering: Avatar: The Last Airbender launches fully on November 21st, 2025. The debut stream hits on October 28th, with the full card image gallery dropping on November 7th.
As far as pricing, everything appears in-line with previous expansions. Play boosters and Jumpstarts will be $6.99, collector boosters at $37.99, standard bundles are $69.99 and commander bundles will be $109.99. A beginner box, just in time for the holidays, will be $34.99 and is a great way to bend Avatar: The Last Airbender fans into the world of Magic: The Gathering.
If you can't wait until November 21st, you can check out some of the Avatar: The Last Airbender preview cards here.