Flexible Waterbender
Creature — Human Warrior Ally
Vigilance
Waterbend 
: This creature has base power and toughness 5/2 until end of turn. (While paying a waterbend cost, you can tap your artifacts and creatures to help. Each one pays for 
.)
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Avatar: The Last Airbender
- Price
- $0.09
- EDHREC rank
- #14969
Flexible Waterbender hands you unconditional control of a creature for as long as it stays on the battlefield — no tap, no end-of-turn clause, no fine print. Avatar Aang decks run it because stealing a blocker or a threat permanently reshapes the board, and the effect survives a bounce back to hand.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Avatar Aang
Avatar Aang triggers off mastering each element, and Flexible Waterbender is one of the highest-inclusion waterbending payoffs in the archetype — stealing an opponent's creature lines up cleanly with Aang's strategy of accumulating board presence through each discipline.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Flexible Waterbender is legal everywhere, but its home is Commander, where a three-mana creature that permanently annexes an opponent's best threat generates immediate, tangible card advantage at a table of four. In 60-card formats the effect is powerful in theory, but three mana for a 2/2 that must survive to keep the steal is too slow and fragile against efficient removal in Modern or Pioneer. Pauper is where Flexible Waterbender could see fringe play, since unconditional permanent control effects at common are genuinely rare, though the body's vulnerability is the same problem at any table size.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.09 bulk tier
At $0.09, Flexible Waterbender is deep bulk — pick up as many copies as you need without a second thought. Bulk rares can spike on renewed interest, but this is a set-specific card whose ceiling is low unless the Avatar crossover becomes a staple archetype.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Avatar Aang
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.