Avatar: The Last Airbender

Avatar: The Last Airbender
Set Information
Set symbol
Symbol description	Aang's head while in the Avatar state.
Vision Design	Chris Mooney (lead), Carmen Klomparens
Release date	November 21, 2025;; 2 months' time
Themes and mechanics	Allies, Lessons
Keywords/ability words	Airbend, Earthbend, Firebending, Waterbend
Expansion code	TLA
Standard
Universes Beyond
Magic: The Gathering Chronology

This article documents an upcoming release.

Glimpse of Tomorrow

Upcoming release

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“Mystery is beauty. Within the unknown we plumb revelation.”

This article discusses story elements that are not considered canon.

Evolving Wilds

External franchise

This article discusses story elements that are not considered canon. The story discussed here is based on Avatar: The Last Airbender. It has no bearing on Magic continuity.

“Whoa, far out! Are you quite sure this is the planet you aimed for?”

Avatar: The Last Airbender

Avatar: The Last Airbender (stylized as Magic: The Gathering^® | Avatar: The Last Airbender^™) is an upcoming tentpole set in the Magic: The Gathering Universes Beyond series released by Wizards of the Coast, based on the animated series of the same name. This release was created in collaboration with the creators of Avatar: the Last Airbender, Nickelodeon Animation Studio and its parent company Viacom (Paramount Media Networks). It will be released on November 21, 2025.^[1] The set will be Standard legal and will be the 108th Magic expansion.

Product suite

Avatar: The Last Airbender features about 301 regular cards (). It will be available in Play Boosters, Collector Boosters, the Last Airbender Bundle, a Gift Edition Commander's Bundle, two Scene Boxes and a Beginner Box. There are also Jumpstart Boosters and two booster Jumpstart packs for the Jumpstart set.^[3] Similar to the preceding Spider-Man set, it does not feature Commander decks associated with it.^[4]

Set codes and numbering

The main Standard-legal set uses the code SPM. Alternate card frames have a different card number than the original version. The regular cards include 5 full-art "Appa" basic lands depicting Appa, the sky bison, flying over the Four nations (#287-291).^[1] Borderless "Field Notes" cards (first seen in Bloomburrow) are #TBA-TBA. Bordereles "Elemental frame" cards (with different etchings in the text-box frame depending on the element being depicted) are #TBA-TBA. Borderless double-faced cards are #TBA-357. Neon Ink borderless, textless battle pose cards are #358-362. The raised foil Headliner is #363. Extended art cards are #TBA-TBA.

Expansion symbol for *Avatar: The Last Airbender Eternal*

Cards not legal in Standard use the set code TLE (Avatar: The Last Airbender Eternal) and an alternate expansion symbol (). TLE cards are Commander-, Legacy-, and Vintage-legal but not Standard legal.^[1] This includes Jumpstart-exclusive cards and Borderless Source Material cards.^[5]

Booster packs

Play Boosters contain 14 cards each: 6–7 commons, 3 uncommons, 1 card of any rarity, 1 rare or mythic rare, 1 traditional-foil card of any rarity, and 1 land. In one of every 26 packs, a TLE card replaces the seventh common. Each pack also includes a non-foil DFC helper card or double-sided token. Each Play Booster box contains 30 packs.

Collector Boosters contain 15 cards each: 12 traditional-foil cards (3 commons, 3 uncommons, 2 TLE commons, 1 TLE uncommon, 1 full-art land, 1 rare or mythic rare, 1 TLE rare or mythic rare), 1 non-foil Booster Fun rare or mythic rare, 1 non-foil or traditional-foil TLE card, and 1 foil Booster Fun rare or mythic rare. Each also includes an art card or a traditional-foil double-sided token. A Collector Booster box contains 12 packs.^[1]

Scene Boxes

The Scene Boxes include six borderless scene cards with the TLE expansion code. The box also includes three Play Boosters, six art cards, and a display easel.^[1]

Scene	# cards	Notes
The Black Sun Invasion	3 x 2	The invasion of the Fire Nation, also known as the Black Sun invasion.
Tea Time at the Jasmine Dragon	3 x 2	The Jasmine Dragon is a traditional tea shop in the Upper Ring of Ba Sing Se; due to its location, its clientele mostly consists of the upper-class citizens of the Earth Kingdom capital.

Commander's Bundle

The Commander's Bundle is a reimagined Gift Edition of the regular Avatar: The Last Airbender Bundle. Apart from an extra Collector Booster, it contains five non-foil promo cards. Three of these promo cards are the same in each Commander's Bundle. These are Avatar: The Last Airbender versions of Sol Ring, Arcane Signet, and and Swiftfoot Boots. The others are 2 of 10 Avatar Commander's Bundle Booster Fun cards.

Headliner

This set's headliner card is Avatar Aang, who transforms into Aang, Master of Elements. The raised foil version, illustrated by Avatar: The Last Airbender co-creator Bryan Konietzko, appears only in English-language Avatar: The Last Airbender Collector Boosters.^[1]

Tokens

The following tokens are known to be included with the set:

1/1 Ally creature for Appa, Steadfast Guardian; Katara, Water Tribe's Hope; Path to Redemption; Pretending Poxbearers; Suki, Kyoshi Warrior.
2/2 Soldier creature with firebending 1 for Fire Nation Attacks.

Themes and mechanics

The Last Airbender debuts four new named mechanics, each one corresponding to one of the "bending" styles of the franchise:

Airbend is a keyword action that captures airbending's evasive and disruptive nature. When you airbend a permanent, it is exiled. However, its owner may pay to cast it from exile as long as it is exiled this way.
Waterbend is an activated keyword ability which is attached to activated abilities and the cost of spells. Similarly to convoke and improvise, creatures and artifacts you control can be tapped to pay for in the cost of a waterbend ability.
Firebending is a triggered keyword ability on creatures that represents firebenders' ability to draw power from aggression. Whenever a creature with firebending X attacks, its controller adds X , which they don't lose between steps and phases until the end of combat.
Earthbend is a keyword action that symbolizes earthbenders' ability to take advantage of the terrain around them. When you earthbend X, target land you control becomes a 0/0 creature with haste in addition to its other types, and you put X +1/+1 counters on it. When that land dies or is exiled, you return it to the battlefield tapped.

None of the bending mechanics are tied to one specific color, although they are each more prevalent in specific colors, and they each support a variety of mechanical themes in the set rather than being a self-contained theme. This was intentional on the part of Design, who wanted to reflect the versatility of bending as portrayed in the show.^[5]

Returning mechanics include Exhaust and Raid.^[6] The set also includes transforming double-faced cards.^[1]

Card types

This sees the return of the Ally type to Standard, for the first time since Oath of the Gatewatch. Ally typal is a major theme of the set. It introduces the Bison and Lemur creature types.

Lessons return, but mostly for flavor reasons, as there are no cards with the learn mechanic (there are some cards that care about Lessons). Like many Universes Beyond sets before, the set features Sagas; these depict events within the show's history and transform into legendary creatures depicting historical characters. Shrine enchantments also return.^[5]

Kangaroo becomes eternal. Mongoose is used on a new card for the first time since Odyssey.

Storyline

The franchise is set in an Asian-inspired fantasy world that is divided into four nations: the Water Tribes, the Fire Nation, the Air Nomads, and the Earth Kingdom. People of each nation are capable of telekinetically manipulating (referred to as "bending" in the franchise) one of the four elements: water, earth, fire, or air.

The titular "Avatar" is the only person who can bend all four elements, and they are responsible for maintaining spiritual and physical balance in the world. After an Avatar's death, the Avatar spirit is reborn into a new person of a different nation, who must learn their bending skills anew and take on their Avatar responsibilities.

The scope of this set within the Avatar: The Last Airbender franchise is limited to the original 2005 animated series.^[1]^[7] The animated series is structured into three seasons, each referred to as a "book", and within each book are individual episodes called "chapters". The three books are titled "Water", "Earth", and "Fire", corresponding to the elements that the titular last Avatar, Aang, must master.

Marketing

“

Bend the Elements, Master the Game

”

Avatar: The Last Airbender was teased as an "Unannounced Universes Beyond set" on the Announcement Day at MagicCon Las Vegas on October 25, 2024.^[8]^[9]^[10] On January 6, 2025, hints on MTG Arena seemed to indicate that the set would be based on the Avatar: The Last Airbender franchise.^[11] On February 21, 2025, the set name was confirmed at the MagicCon Chicago preview panel.^[7]

Events

Prerelease: November 14–20, 2025^[12]
- Features five seeded Prerelease Packs^[12]
MTG Arena Release: TBA
Commander Box League: November 14–20, 2025
Two-Headed Giant Commander Night: November 21, 2025–January 15, 2026 (one event monthly)
Magic Presents: Master the Four Elements: November 21, 2025–January 15, 2026
- Casual Sealed league^[12]
Magic Academy Events: November 21, 2025–January 15, 2026
Standard Showdown: November 21, 2025–January 15, 2026
Friday Night Magic: November 21, 2025–January 15, 2026
Commander Party: December 5–11, 2025 / January 9–15, 2026
Store Championship: TBA

Promos

Prerelease: a stamped card that can be any rare or mythic rare of Avatar: The Last Airbender.
- The seasonal dark-frame promos are: N.A. (no dedicated promo pack for this set).^[13]
Bundle promo:
Store Championship: alternate art TBA (participation), TBA (Top 8), and TBA (winner).
Commander Party: retro frame TBA
Standard Showdown: TBA
San Diego Comic-Con 2025: Katara, the Fearless^[14]

Cycles

Cycle name
Landcyclers	Rabaroo Troop	Giant Koi		Mongoose Lizard	Saber-Tooth Moose-Lion
Landcyclers	Five common creatures with landcycling of a specific basic land type.

Double cycles

Cycle name
Cycle name
Hybrid legends	Sokka, Lateral Strategist		Suki, Kyoshi Warrior	Hei Bai, Spirit of Balance		Long Feng, Grand Secretariat
Hybrid legends	Ten uncommon legendary creatures with hybrid mana in their costs.
Hybrid commons	Cat-Owl	Vindictive Warden	Earth Kingdom Soldier	Pretending Poxbearers	Abandon Attachments	Earth Village Ruffians
Hybrid commons	Ten common spells with hybrid mana in their costs.