Fresh off of Spider-Man, Magic: The Gathering is swinging over to another beloved franchise for its next expansion. The trading card game will adapt Avatar: The Last Airbender, offering fresh takes on all your favorite heroes, villains, and hybrid creatures from across the four nations.
Magic publisher Wizards of Coast revealed a ton of new details about the set today, including even more card designs along with the various products that will be available. (Once again, there are no pre-constructed Commander decks for Avatar, but can we interest you in a Commander Bundle?) That includes Magic’s take on classics like Uncle Iroh (a multi-colored legendary creature) and Fire Nation Attacks (a red sorcery), along with new inventions like the Badgermole Cub. There’s also a ton of exciting reprints, from Commander staples like Sol Ring to powerful cards like Dark Depths.
Magic’s Avatar: The Last Airbender set is available for pre-release events on Nov. 14 and launches globally on Nov. 21. While you wait to get your hands on the cards for yourself, check them out in the images below.
Main Set Cards
OK, here’s the big one. Take a look at all the main set cards revealed today. We’ve already seen some of those, but most are brand-new and pretty exciting. Appa, Steadfast Guardian looks like a particularly fun card to play with. Avatar Kuruk starts out as a Saga before transforming into a creature with a wild ability, and Badgermole Cub is equal parts adorable and powerful.
During a briefing ahead of the reveal, the set’s designers explained that when it comes to core Avatar characters like Katara and Sokka, each version of them represents their evolution throughout the series. The designers chose to represent this by adding colors to the creature’s mana cost. So Katara starts out as mono-blue and eventually adds other colors to her identity to become green-white-blue (or Bant). The same goes for Zuko, who starts out as mono-red but ultimately becomes red-white-black (or Mardu).
Booster Fun (full-art and reprints)
Wizards is also printing special full-art versions of certain cards in a few different styles. There’s the Field Notes cards (first introduced in Bloomburrow), along with Power Poses inspired by the show’s opening theme.
In addition to those full-art variants, you’ll also find reprints of older cards tucked away in Avatar booster packs. There’s one for each episode of The Last Airbender (61 in total), each with art from the series itself, cropped to fit a Magic card.
Jumpstart (for beginners)
The team behind the set opted to focus on a bigger-friendly product over precon decks, but some of these Jumpstart cards are mighty powerful and may ultimately show up in your Commander decks — or even leading the charge. Toph, Earthbending Master and Wan Shi Tong, All Knowing both seem like particularly fun commanders to build around.
Commander Bundle
The Commander Bundle includes Avatar-themed reprints of three classic Commander cards: Arcane Signet, Sol Ring, and Swiftfoot Boots. You’ll also get a bunch of packs for your trouble.
Secret Lair — Cabbages
There are more Secret Lair drops coming, but for now, Wizards has revealed this Cabbage Merchant-themed set of reprints: five popular instants, all with iconic cabbages art.
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