Card

Appa, Steadfast Guardian

Mana cost {2}{W}{W}

Legendary Creature — Bison Ally 3/4

Flash Flying When Appa enters, airbend any number of other target nonland permanents you control. (Exile them. While each one is exiled, its owner may cast it for {2} rather than its mana cost.) Whenever you cast a spell from exile, create a 1/1 white Ally creature token.

No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 458 known combos. 5 official rulings.

Commander
Legal
Printing
Mythic · TLA · #10
Cheapest printing
€7.03
EDHREC salt
—
Color identity
White
Keywords
Flying, Airbend, Flash

Scryfall · EDHREC

Bracket

  • B1 Exhibition — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
  • B2 Core — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
  • B3 Upgraded — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
  • B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
  • B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list

Why

  • No Game Changer, mass land denial, extra turn, tutor or two-card combo

How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket

Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags

Combos

458 known combos.

Combos: Commander Spellbook

Rulings

  • 2025-10-02 · Wizards of the Coast
    Tokens exiled this way will cease to exist and cannot be cast.
  • 2025-10-02 · Wizards of the Coast
    Since you are using an alternative cost to cast a spell from exile this way, you can't pay any other alternative costs. You can, however, pay additional costs, such as kicker costs. If the card has any mandatory additional costs, you must pay those.
  • 2025-10-02 · Wizards of the Coast
    To airbend one or more permanents and/or spells means to exile each of those objects. For each card exiled this way, for as long as it's exiled, its owner may cast it from exile by paying {2} rather than paying its mana cost.
  • 2025-10-02 · Wizards of the Coast
    If the spell you cast has {X} in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X.
  • 2025-10-02 · Wizards of the Coast
    Lands exiled this way cannot be played from exile. (Lands that were animated by earthbend will be returned to the battlefield tapped when they're exiled.)

Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast

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