Card
Azula, Ruthless Firebender
Mana cost {2}{B}
Legendary Creature — Human Noble 3/3
Firebending 1 (Whenever this creature attacks, add {R}. This mana lasts until end of combat.) Whenever Azula attacks, you may discard a card. Then you get an experience counter for each player who discarded a card this turn. {2}{B}: Until end of turn, Azula gets +1/+1 for each experience counter you have and gains menace.
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. 7 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Mythic · TLE · #101
- Cheapest printing
- €2.28
- EDHREC salt
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- Color identity
- Black
- Keywords
- Firebending
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
No known combos for this card.
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2025-10-02 · Wizards of the Coast
"Firebending N" is a keyword that represents the ability "Whenever this creature attacks, add N {R}. Until end of combat, you don't lose this mana as steps end." - 2025-10-02 · Wizards of the Coast
The experience counter goes on you, the player, not on Azula. You will keep that counter even if Azula, Ruthless Firebender dies. - 2025-10-02 · Wizards of the Coast
All experience counters are identical, no matter how you got them. For example, the last ability will count experience counters that you got from the second ability, from another ability, from another copy of Azula, Ruthless Firebender, and so on. - 2025-10-02 · Wizards of the Coast
Mana from firebending abilities isn't lost until you leave combat and go to your second main phase. It can be used at any time during combat, even after combat damage has been dealt. - 2025-10-02 · Wizards of the Coast
Any other mana you add during combat will still be lost as normal when moving between steps of combat. - 2025-10-02 · Wizards of the Coast
Firebending abilities aren't mana abilities. They use the stack and can be responded to. - 2025-10-02 · Wizards of the Coast
Multiple instances of firebending on the same creature trigger separately, each granting you the appropriate amount of mana.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast