Avatar the Last Airbender First Look

Updated 10/21/2025

Water. Fire. Earth. Air. Long ago the four nations lived in harmony, but everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked. Universes Beyond’s Avatar: the Last Airbender is blowing in during the month of November and we’re as excited as a platypus bear with a cabbage cart!

The Story

The tale of the young Avatar Aang is one of harmony, hope, and uniting people when times seem bleak. Like some of the other Universes Beyond sets, this is a story we know the ending to. If you’re unfamiliar, go watch this fantastic series! You won’t be sorry. Our hope is that this set captures the heart, humor, and high-stakes adventure that fans have cherished. Whether you’re a fan of water, earth, fire, or air, the balance and harmony of the four nations will be in your hands.

The Timeline

Here are the key dates to mark on your calendar. Remember, the world is counting on you to be there when it needs it most!

• Card Kingdom Presale Begins: October 15
• All Sealed Only Product Orders: Must be placed by 11:59 pm PST on November 10 to ship on November 14.
• All Presale Orders: Must be placed by 9:00 pm PST on November 13 to ship on Release Day.
• Magic: The Gathering | Avatar: The Last Airbender Debut Stream: October 28
• Full Card Image Gallery: November 7
• Prerelease Events: November 14–20
• MTG Arena Release Date: November 18
• Tabletop Release Date: November 21
• Magic World Championship 31: December 5–7
• Magic Spotlight: The Avatar: January 9–11, 2026

Master the Elements: Products from the Four Nations

Wizards of the Coast is delivering a massive array of products to master all four elements! From new players to seasoned collectors, there’s something for every fan.

Build Powerful Decks:

• Avatar: The Last Airbender Play Boosters: Join the rebellion with powerful bending techniques, hybrid creatures, and non-benders wielding blades, boomerangs, and the occasional disgruntled cabbage vendor.
• Avatar: The Last Airbender JumpStart Boosters: Platypus bears, and catgators are twice the fun! Mash two packs together to make a deck. You’re ready to play right out of the packs, not even Aunt Wu could predict your combos!

For the Collector:

Avatar: The Last Airbender Collector Boosters: Unwrap the quenchiest cards of unforgettable team members, hybrid critters, and fearsome villains across the four nations in beautiful special treatments. Explore the rich world of Avatar!

Perfect Starter Packs:

• Avatar: The Last Airbender Bundle: Master the elements. This bundle will help you practice your bending, master your element, and create your new deck.
• Avatar: The Last Airbender Beginner Box: The best way for ATLA fans to begin their journey into the world of Magic: The Gathering.
• Avatar: The Last Airbender Commander Bundle: This awesome bundle shows off the elements of the set and throws in Commander staples to help save the world!

Iconic Art & Scenes:

Avatar: The Last Airbender Scene Boxes: Gorgeous box sets featuring key scenes from the original series.

Team Avatar Reporting for Duty!

The previews are starting to flow like water, and we’ve got some exciting reveals to share! We’ve seen cards featuring all of Team Avatar.

• Avatar Aang // Aang, Master of Elements: The Avatar himself, ready to bend all four elements and restore balance.
• Katara, Water Tribe’s Hope: Mastering her element with grace and power.
• Sokka, Bold Boomeranger: Providing the plans, the comic relief, and a well-placed boomerang.
• Toph, the First Metalbender: The greatest earthbender in the world, who listens to the earth and waits for it to tell her what to do (oh, and if that’s not cool enough, she also INVENTS metalbending).
• Fire Lord Zuko: A hero on a complex path of redemption who finds his way back to his honor by helping his people and the world.

We can’t wait to see the entire team, and formidable foes like the Fire Lord, in this stunning set.

Bending Mechanics with the Masters

Airbending

Airbend is a keyword action that helps you control the board without getting violent. When you airbend a permanent, you exile it. As long as it remains exiled, its owner may cast it for {2} rather than its mana cost. While Appa only airbends your permanents, there are other cards that airbend your opponent’s permanents as well.

Waterbending

Some spells and abilities have you waterbend as part of their costs. The activated ability of Katara, Water Tribe’s Hope requires that you waterbend {X}. You must pay {X}, and for each generic mana in that cost, you may tap an untapped artifact or creature you control rather than pay that mana.

Earthbending

Earthbending is a keyword action. Much like how Earthbenders turn the terrain into weapons, you can do the same with the help of spells and abilities that instruct you to earthbend. Toph, the First Metalbender lets you earthbend {2}, which turns a target land you control into a 0/0 land creature with haste, then puts two +1/+1 counters on that land. And don’t worry; when that land dies or is exiled, it returns as a tapped noncreature land.

Firebending

Firebending is a keyword ability that turns your aggression into a source of power. That’s very flavorful for Firebenders! When a creature with firebending N attacks, you add N {R} mana. That mana doesn’t go away until the end of combat, letting you use it on any instant-speed activated abilities or spells.

Card Printings and Treatments

What would you do to get your hands on some of these gorgeous borderless battle pose cards, or lands featuring our favorite flying bison? We have a feeling picking up these rare printings will still be easier than riding the unagi.

• Appa Lands

• Borderless Battle Poses

• Borderless Double Faced Sagas

• Elemental Frame Cards

End Step

Universes Beyond’s Avatar: The Last Airbender launches worldwide on November 21. Stay tuned for more official updates, spoilers, and reveals as we get closer to release!