Card
Aang, Airbending Master
Mana cost {4}{W}
Legendary Creature — Human Avatar Ally 4/4
When Aang enters, airbend another target creature. (Exile it. While it's exiled, its owner may cast it for {2} rather than its mana cost.) Whenever one or more creatures you control leave the battlefield without dying, you get an experience counter. At the beginning of your upkeep, create a 1/1 white Ally creature token for each experience counter you have.
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 35 known combos. 7 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Mythic · TLE · #74
- Cheapest printing
- €14.08
- EDHREC salt
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- Color identity
- White
- Keywords
- Airbend
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
35 known combos.
- Appa, Steadfast Guardian + Avatar Aang // Aang, Master of Elements + Aang, Airbending Master
Produces: Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature tokens
View on Commander Spellbook - Appa, Steadfast Guardian + Urza's Incubator + Aang, Airbending Master
Produces: Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite storm count
View on Commander Spellbook - Aang, Airbending Master + Aang, the Last Airbender + Urza's Incubator
Produces: Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite storm count
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 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
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.) - 2025-10-02 · Wizards of the Coast
The experience counter goes on you, the player, not on Aang. You will keep that counter even if Aang, Airbending Master 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 Aang, Airbending Master, and so on. - 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
Tokens exiled this way will cease to exist and cannot be cast.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast