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Aang, the Last Airbender

Legendary Creature — Human Avatar Ally

Flying
When Aang enters, airbend up to one other target nonland permanent. (Exile it. While it's exiled, its owner may cast it for {2} rather than its mana cost.)
Whenever you cast a Lesson spell, Aang gains lifelink until end of turn.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{3}{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Avatar: The Last Airbender
Price
$0.19
EDHREC rank
#6900
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Aang, the Last Airbender card art
Aang, the Last Airbender lands and immediately starts building toward Avatar Aang by tutoring or advancing your airbending synergy package, with Appa, Steadfast Guardian serving as a natural pairing that extends his protective gameplan. The cost is real — you're committing a card slot to a piece that asks for a specific tribal shell to pay off — but inside that shell, he overdelivers.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01

Avatar Aang

51.8% of decks · synergy 0.49

Avatar Aang runs Aang, the Last Airbender in over half its decks because he's a direct engine piece — the two cards share a name identity that feeds Avatar Aang's bending-mastery triggers and keeps the avatar theme consistent from the command zone down through the 99.

02
Katara, the Fearless

Katara, the Fearless

32.6% of decks · synergy 0.30

Katara, the Fearless wants bodies that reinforce the Avatar-world synergy package, and Aang, the Last Airbender slots in as a redundant threat that keeps the deck's thematic engine firing even when Katara draws removal.

03

Aang, at the Crossroads

22.1% of decks · synergy 0.20

Aang, at the Crossroads and Aang, the Last Airbender share enough mechanical overlap that running one under the other creates a self-reinforcing loop — the crossroads version benefits from the groundwork the Last Airbender lays in terms of bending-relevant triggers and board presence.

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, the Last Airbender actually gets to do his job — a 100-card singleton environment with Avatar-tribal commanders gives him the density of payoffs he needs to matter. In 60-card constructed formats like Modern, Pioneer, and Standard he's technically legal but lacks the tribal infrastructure to compete with faster, more focused threats. Legacy and Vintage are even less hospitable; the power ceiling in those formats makes a synergy-dependent three-drop a dead draw against consistent turn-one and turn-two plays. Stick to Commander.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.19 bulk tier

At $0.19, Aang, the Last Airbender is deep bulk — pick up as many copies as you need without a second thought. Bulk rares with narrow tribal homes rarely climb unless the tribe explodes in popularity, so treat this as a functional game piece at a throwaway price, not a spec.

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