Abandoned Air Temple
Land
This land enters tapped unless you control a basic land.
: Add 
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, : Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.
- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Avatar: The Last Airbender Promos
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #1755
Abandoned Air Temple enters tapped but replaces itself with a card draw trigger tied to Avatar Aang's elemental mastery engine, making it more than a land — it's a resource. The cost is real: tapped lands lose tempo, so it earns its slot only if your deck is actively triggering its ability.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Avatar Aang
Avatar Aang's ability rewards playing lands with diverse basic land types and elemental synergies, and Abandoned Air Temple slots directly into that engine as a payoff land that generates card advantage when you're doing what the deck already wants to do.
Katara, the Fearless
Katara, the Fearless leans on value generation across multiple resource types, and Abandoned Air Temple's draw trigger gives her decks an additional way to refuel without spending card slots on dedicated draw spells.
Fire Lord Zuko
Fire Lord Zuko decks run Abandoned Air Temple for the incidental card advantage — even off-theme lands that chip in a draw trigger pull their weight in a commander shell that wants to maintain pressure and hand size simultaneously.
Sokka, Tenacious Tactician
Sokka, Tenacious Tactician values any land that does something beyond producing mana, and Abandoned Air Temple's draw effect gives artifact- and token-adjacent Sokka builds a low-opportunity-cost way to keep cards flowing.
Felisa, Fang of Silverquill
Felisa, Fang of Silverquill decks that splash into the Avatar set's landbase pick up Abandoned Air Temple primarily as a supplemental draw source that doesn't compete with creature slots, keeping the token-generation engine fed.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Abandoned Air Temple does its real work — the 99-card singleton format rewards lands that generate incremental value, and a draw trigger stapled to a land is exactly the kind of card-neutral resource most Commander decks want. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer, tapped lands that don't fix colors aggressively are almost never worth the tempo loss, and Abandoned Air Temple won't find a home there outside of dedicated theme builds. Legacy and Vintage have access to so many superior utility lands that this one doesn't register. Standard legality makes it accessible for new players exploring the Avatar set, but the most meaningful play pattern remains a Commander table where one extra card over the course of a game can change an outcome.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.