Avatar: The Last Airbender/Trivia

Avatar: The Last Airbender

 

Bonus sheet

 

Beginner Box

 

Card comparisons

 

Trivia

 

Art Series

 

MaRo's Avatar teaser

Mark Rosewater gave his traditional teaser for Avatar with the following hints to the contents of the main set:

First up, here are some things you can expect:

• Red sorcery that can destroy target land for — Price of Freedom
• Some tokens in this set: 1/1 white Ally, 2/2 red Soldier, 4/4 green Bear, and 1/1 colorless Spirit — see Avatar: The Last Airbender Tokens
• A token first seen in a previous Universes Beyond appears for the second time — Ballistic Boulder created by Fire Navy Trebuchet, previously from The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth
• A activation — Earthen Ally
• Spell capable of making two different type [sic] of copy tokens — Ember Island Production (Hero and Coward)
• Card with affinity for Allies — Allies at Last
• 3/3 creature for — Tiger-Seal
• Some counters in the set - stun, finality, double strike, fire, conqueror, and quest — Rowdy Snowballers (stun), Wolfbat (finality), Mai, Jaded Edge (double strike), e.g. War Balloon (fire), Zhao, the Moon Slayer (conqueror) & e.g. Airbender Ascension (quest).
• Spell that controls target player but just for one specific phase — Secret of Bloodbending
• Red card with a Blood Moon effect — Zhao, the Moon Slayer

Here are snippets of rules text you’ll see:

• "Each land and Ally you control has" — Great Divide Guide
• "to a maximum of 10." — Diligent Zookeeper
• "where X is the number of permanents you've sacrificed this turn." — Obsessive Pursuit
• "Whenever an opponent searches their library," — Wan Shi Tong, Librarian
• "You may reveal a Lesson, Saga or Shrine card" — Guru Pathik
• "for each permanent you own that your opponents control." — Iroh, Tea Master
• "Whenever you tap a creature for mana, add an additional ." — Badgermole Cub
• "CARDNAME has all activated and triggered abilities of the last chosen card." — Koh, the Face Stealer
• "If you would lose unspent mana, that mana becomes red instead." — Ozai, the Phoenix King
• "As long as you control eight or more permanents named" — Phoenix Fleet Airship

Here are some creature type lines from the set:

• Creature — Cat Armadillo — Tiger-Dillo
• Creature — Platypus Bear — Platypus-Bear
• Creature — Boar Elk Bird Ox — Curious Farm Animals
• Creature — Human Plant Ally — Foggy Swamp Vinebender
• Creature — Bird Assassin — Raven Eagle
• Legendary Creature — Human Warrior Performer — The Boulder, Ready to Rumble
• Legendary Creature — Human Monk Ally — Guru Pathik
• Legendary Creature — Shapeshifter Spirit — Koh, the Face Stealer
• Legendary Creature — Elder Cat Turtle — The Lion-Turtle
• Legendary Artifact Creature — Wall — The Walls of Ba Sing Se

Finally, here are some names in the set:

• Day of Black Sun — Sorcery
• Enter the Avatar State — Instant — Lesson
• Firebending Lesson — Instant
• Gather the White Lotus — Sorcery
• Gran-Gran — Legendary Creature — Human Peasant Ally
• Jasmine Dragon Tea Shop — Land
• Meteor Sword — Artifact — Equipment
• The Unagi of Kyoshi Island — Legendary Creature — Serpent
• Unlucky Cabbage Merchant — Creature — Human Citizen
• Yip Yip — Instant

Set

• Every card representing the Avatar in the Avatar State is colorless. This flavorfully represents how the Avatar State is depicted in the series as a consciousness only concerned with balance, which can only be controlled if its user lets go of all earthly attachments.

Cards

• Abandon Attachments gives its caster the option to not discard a card, causing the spell to do nothing. This flavorfully mirrors how Aang rejected the lesson depicted in the card.
• Avatar Destiny is the first and currently only Universes Beyond card to be part of a mega cycle.
• Earth King's Lieutenant has the same triggered abilities as Thalia's Lieutenant, but cares about Allies instead of Humans.
• It'll Quench Ya! is a functional reprint of Quench.
• The name and flavor text of Jeong Jeong's Deserters incorrectly depict Jeong Jeong's followers as being fellow Fire Nation deserters when they were in fact an Earth Kingdom tribe led by Lin Yee who took him in, with Jeong Jeong himself and Chey being the only Fire Nation ex-pats among them.
• Meteor Sword is a mechanical reference to Meteor Golem, sharing its mana cost and enters ability.
• Misty Palms Oasis is the only card in the set that makes reference to Avatar media outside of The Last Airbender. Its flavor text mentions the oasis' "eventual glory," which is shown in The Legend of Korra.
• The rules text of Sokka's Haiku forms a haiku.
• The Walls of Ba Sing Se has the highest printed toughness of any eternal creature card, dethroning Ancient Adamantoise from Final Fantasy.
• Uniquely among cards in the set, Wartime Protestors depicts an apparently original scene. The art and flavor text describe a Fire Nation civil protest that is not mentioned in The Last Airbender.
• Zhao, the Moon Slayer's last ability is the same as that of Blood Moon, referencing the blood moon that Zhao created by restraining the moon spirit Tui.
• The Day of Black Sun (Spotlight Series) promo and the Black Sun's Zenith (Source Material) card depict exactly the same scene.
  • This trait is shared with Energybending and Force of Negation (Source Material), although the difference in the two cards' artwork is much more obvious.