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Firebending Student

Creature — Human Monk

Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
Firebending X, where X is this creature's power. (Whenever this creature attacks, add X {R}. This mana lasts until end of combat.)

CMC
2
Mana cost
{1}{R}
Color identity
R
Rarity
rare
Set
Avatar: The Last Airbender
Price
$2.03
EDHREC rank
#3642
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Firebending Student card art
Firebending Student turns every extra combat into a free damage spell — or a free combat — by untapping your best attacker each time you attack, and that engine pairs with Hellkite Charger to loop combats indefinitely. The cost is committing to a dedicated extra-combat shell, but in Ozai, the Phoenix King lists that shell is already the whole deck.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Ozai, the Phoenix King

Ozai, the Phoenix King

65.8% of decks · synergy 0.63

Ozai, the Phoenix King is the natural home because Firebending Student's untap trigger fuels the exact loop Ozai wants — stack extra combats, untap the biggest threat, repeat until the table is dead.

02
Fire Lord Zuko

Fire Lord Zuko

45.9% of decks · synergy 0.43

Fire Lord Zuko rewards attacking repeatedly, and Firebending Student keeps the best attacker ready every swing, compounding the damage output Zuko's triggers care about.

04
Fire Lord Azula

Fire Lord Azula

42.2% of decks · synergy 0.35

Fire Lord Azula decks lean on tempo swings, and Firebending Student extends that by ensuring a key attacker is never locked out of a follow-up combat step.

05
Iroh, Grand Lotus

Iroh, Grand Lotus

28.2% of decks · synergy 0.25

Iroh, Grand Lotus builds around the Avatar block's firebending theme, and Firebending Student slots in as one of the stronger payoffs that also pulls mechanical weight beyond flavor.

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 Firebending Student actually matters — the extra-combat loops it enables with Hellkite Charger are game-ending at a table and the 100-card singleton format has enough redundancy to assemble them consistently. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer, it's simply too slow and too narrow: a two-mana 1/2 that does nothing the turn it enters and requires attacking to do anything is not a serious proposition outside creature-combat-centric brews with no better options. Standard legality is technically there, but the same fragility applies — removal is everywhere and the payoff requires a board state that rarely survives to trigger. Firebending Student is a Commander card wearing universal legality as a coincidence.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$2.03 cheap tier

At $2.03, Firebending Student sits at a fair price for a narrow combo enabler — cheap enough to run without hesitation in the decks that want it, not so cheap that supply pressure will crater the tag. Given its high inclusion rate in Ozai, the Phoenix King lists, the price is unlikely to drop much further.

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