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Aang, Swift Savior // Aang and La, Ocean's Fury

Legendary Creature — Human Avatar Ally // Legendary Creature — Avatar Spirit Ally

Flash
Flying
When Aang enters, airbend up to one other target creature or spell. (Exile it. While it's exiled, its owner may cast it for {2} rather than its mana cost.)
Waterbend {8}: Transform Aang.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{1}{W}{U}
Color identity
UW
Rarity
rare
Set
Avatar: The Last Airbender
Price
$9.11
EDHREC rank
#4389
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Aang, Swift Savior // Aang and La, Ocean's Fury card art
Aang, Swift Savior // Aang and La, Ocean's Fury delivers immediate board impact on the front face and a transformative finisher on the back — two distinct threats on one card. It slots cleanly into any Avatar-tribal shell, and Appa, Steadfast Guardian gives Avatar Aang a recursive engine that keeps the pressure on even through removal.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01

Avatar Aang

78.6% of decks · synergy 0.74

Avatar Aang runs Aang, Swift Savior // Aang and La, Ocean's Fury in nearly 79% of lists because the card directly fuels the Avatar State mechanic — flipping into Aang and La, Ocean's Fury can close games that Avatar Aang's tempo has already cracked open.

02
Katara, the Fearless

Katara, the Fearless

66.3% of decks · synergy 0.59

Katara, the Fearless picks up Aang, Swift Savior // Aang and La, Ocean's Fury in over 66% of builds, leaning on the front face's evasion and the flip condition to threaten a board-wiping back half at the moment Katara finishes pushing damage through.

03

Aang, at the Crossroads

41.7% of decks · synergy 0.34

Aang, at the Crossroads appears in just over 41% of Aang, Swift Savior // Aang and La, Ocean's Fury lists — the card rewards the same low-to-the-ground Avatar synergies that Aang, at the Crossroads incentivizes, making the flip condition realistic rather than aspirational.

04
Sokka, Tenacious Tactician

Sokka, Tenacious Tactician

22.8% of decks · synergy 0.20

Sokka, Tenacious Tactician shows up in roughly 23% of Aang, Swift Savior // Aang and La, Ocean's Fury lists, primarily because Sokka's token and go-wide gameplan benefits from the back face's sweeper effect to reset opposing boards while leaving Sokka's own threats intact.

05
Errant and Giada

Errant and Giada

21.0% of decks · synergy 0.18

Errant and Giada reaches for Aang, Swift Savior // Aang and La, Ocean's Fury in about 21% of builds, using the card's flying body on the front face to trigger Errant and Giada's copy-spells-with-flying ability and stack additional value off the flip.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Aang, Swift Savior // Aang and La, Ocean's Fury does its best work — the singleton format rewards double-faced cards that pull two roles, and the Avatar tribal density in Commander is high enough to flip into the back face consistently. In competitive non-rotating formats like Modern and Legacy, the card is legal but faces stiff competition from creatures with more immediate impact at a lower cost, so it's unlikely to see dedicated play there. Pioneer and Standard give it a fairer home, where the Avatar synergy pieces from the same release are legal and the format's lower power ceiling makes a flipping finisher more threatening. Oathbreaker is another format worth noting — Aang and La, Ocean's Fury's activated ability as a signature spell analogue could support a dedicated control build, though the format's smaller deck size makes the combo lines tighter.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

Aang, Swift Savior // Aang and La, Ocean's Fury occupies a unique enough role that true one-for-one replacements don't exist, but if the budget is the constraint, look at cheaper Avatar-tribal creatures that provide evasion on the front end without the transformative payoff. The trade-off is real: you keep the early-game body but lose the game-ending back face entirely, which means you're threading through opponents on incremental damage rather than a decisive flip.

Price Context

Current price

$9.11 mid tier

At $9.11, Aang, Swift Savior // Aang and La, Ocean's Fury sits in the mid tier — expensive enough to feel like a deliberate include, cheap enough that it's not a budget-breaking ask for a single slot. Given the 79% inclusion rate in Avatar Aang decks, demand is high and the price is likely to hold as long as the Avatar release stays in active circulation.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.