Katara, Water Tribe's Hope
Legendary Creature — Human Warrior Ally
Vigilance
When Katara enters, create a 1/1 white Ally creature token.
Waterbend 
: Creatures you control have base power and toughness X/X until end of turn. X can't be 0. Activate only during your turn. (While paying a waterbend cost, you can tap your artifacts and creatures to help. Each one pays for 
.)
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- UW
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Avatar: The Last Airbender Promos
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #5260
Katara, Water Tribe's Hope delivers immediate tribal value the turn she enters, and Avatar Aang decks run her at a 73% clip for exactly that reason. The cost is light enough that she slots into nearly any Water Tribe shell without competing for curve space.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Avatar Aang
Avatar Aang is the premier home for Katara, Water Tribe's Hope — her triggered ability feeds directly into the wide-board and bending synergies Aang rewards, making her a near-auto-include at 73% across 15,000+ decks.
Katara, the Fearless
Katara, the Fearless shares a name and a gameplan with Katara, Water Tribe's Hope, and the overlap is intentional — the Fearless version rewards exactly the kind of recurring tribal interaction that Water Tribe's Hope generates.
Sokka, Tenacious Tactician
Sokka, Tenacious Tactician wants bodies and value on the cheap, and Katara, Water Tribe's Hope provides both — showing up in nearly half of all Sokka lists as a reliable source of board presence.
Sokka and Suki
Sokka and Suki lean on synergistic pieces that do work without demanding resources, and Katara, Water Tribe's Hope fits that role cleanly enough to land in roughly a third of all lists.
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 |
Katara, Water Tribe's Hope is legal across Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Standard, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but Commander is clearly where she lives. In 60-card formats, tribal payoffs need to clear a high bar against faster strategies, and without a dense enough Water Tribe or Avatar package in those environments, she's a niche inclusion at best. In Commander, the singleton rule and longer game give her tribal triggers room to accumulate, and the Avatar crossover commanders turn her from a role-player into a staple. Oathbreaker is a reasonable secondary home if the signature spell synergizes with her trigger.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.