Aang's Defense
Instant
Target blocking creature you control gets +2/+2 until end of turn.
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- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Avatar: The Last Airbender Eternal
- Price
- $0.19
- EDHREC rank
- #16725
Aang's Defense is a bulk-rare counterspell variant that protects a target creature while generating a secondary effect — the kind of card that looks playable until you compare it to the established one-mana protection suite. It occupies a crowded slot and doesn't clear the bar.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Aang's Defense is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but that legal status doesn't translate to meaningful play in the powered formats — Legacy and Vintage have too many efficient alternatives. Pauper is the format where a cheap protection spell can matter most, and that's the one context worth testing it in. In Commander, reactive single-target protection competes with a long list of better options, so Aang's Defense would need a very specific synergy hook to justify a slot.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.19 bulk tier
At $0.19, Aang's Defense sits firmly in bulk territory — easy to pick up, low barrier to testing. Bulk commons and rares rarely appreciate unless a deck archetype elevates them, and nothing on the horizon suggests that trajectory here.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.