Is Avatar's Wrath good in Commander?

Avatar's Wrath

Sorcery

Choose up to one target creature, then airbend all other creatures. (Exile them. While each one is exiled, its owner may cast it for rather than its mana cost.)
Until your next turn, your opponents can't cast spells from anywhere other than their hands.
Exile Avatar's Wrath.

CMC: 4
Mana cost
Color identity: W
Rarity: rare
Set: Avatar: The Last Airbender Promos
Price: —
EDHREC rank: #2165

Buy on TCGplayer

Avatar's Wrath hits the board as a mass removal spell that scales with the Avatar state, wiping threats while generating value tied to Avatar Aang's bending mechanics. The cost is real — it demands specific conditions to fire efficiently — but when it goes off, the swing in board presence is decisive. Naru Meha, Master Wizard loops aside, this is a staple in its intended shell and a near-blank outside it.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

Avatar Aang

73.7% of decks · synergy 0.69

Avatar Aang runs Avatar's Wrath as a core payoff — the spell plugs directly into the Avatar state engine, and at 73% inclusion across nearly 15,500 decks, it's effectively mandatory.

Fire Lord Zuko

50.0% of decks · synergy 0.46

Fire Lord Zuko picks up Avatar's Wrath to leverage its damage output alongside the fire-bending synergies the deck already wants, showing up in roughly half of all Zuko lists.

Katara, the Fearless

43.0% of decks · synergy 0.36

Katara, the Fearless uses Avatar's Wrath as top-end removal that aligns with the water-bending suite, appearing in about 43% of Katara builds where the spell's conditions are easier to meet.

Kellan, the Kid

42.9% of decks · synergy 0.36

Kellan, the Kid reaches for Avatar's Wrath as a flexible removal option that pairs with the Adventure and spell-cast triggers the deck generates, landing in 43% of Kellan lists.

Ketramose, the New Dawn

31.1% of decks · synergy 0.28

Ketramose, the New Dawn includes Avatar's Wrath for its raw board-clearing potential in a shell that can meet the casting conditions, present in roughly 31% of Ketramose decks.

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

Avatar's Wrath is legal across Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Standard, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but Commander is where it actually sees play — the singleton format rewards situational high-impact spells in a way 60-card formats punish. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern and Legacy, the conditional nature of Avatar's Wrath makes it a non-starter against the raw efficiency of format staples. Standard and Pioneer could theoretically support it in the right metagame window, but the card's ceiling is too tied to a specific synergy package to be a reliable main-deck choice. Oathbreaker offers a middle ground where Avatar Aang as the oathbreaker makes Avatar's Wrath a natural signature spell pickup.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

5 decks