Avatar’s First Magic Card Pushes Five-Color Tech By 100%

Last updated on July 2, 2025

Avatar Aang – art by Brian Konietzko

We've talked quite a bit in these Magic financial articles about Final Fantasy price spikes. Either older cards spiking thanks to Final Fantasy cards (with Vivi and Y'shtola as the perennial usual suspects), or Final Fantasy cards themselves spiking, like Summon: Yojimbo did last week or Lulu, Stern Guardian did two days ago. Now Edge of Eternities is slowly stealing the show.

So, for a change, now it's the turn for the shy kid sitting in the back this year: Avatar: the Last Airbender. Or, more precisely Aang, Master of Elements, the transformed backside of Avatar Aang. 

The third and last Universes Beyond MTG set this year, Avatar: The Last Airbender x MTG is so far away that Avatar Aang – the sole TLA card that has been officially revealed thus far – is not even listed on most platforms. But its Aang, Master of Elements backside seems behind the recent price spike of a piece of old five-color tech, Fist of Suns.

Over the last few days Fist of Suns jumped sharply across its key printings, with the original Fifth Dawn copy more than doubling in average price in US markets according to MTGStocks, going overnight from around $4.50 to over $9. 

Source: MTGStocks

This upward action is shared to some degree by all printings: The Commander 2017 shares the exact same price curve, while the 2023 borderless reprint from Commander: The Lost Caverns of Ixalan is up by about 25%.

Why Is Fist of Suns Spiking?

Fist of Suns is first and foremost a casual Commander card, with scarce competitive chops either on 60-card formats or cEDH. But, in its five-color casual niche, it's quite popular overall, and very popular with two of the best five-color commanders: Morophon, the Boundless and Jodah, Archmage Eternal. 

If you're facing Morophon or Jodah in the command zone, you've got roughly 50/50 odds of running into Fist of Suns.

But what seems to be pushing the interest in Fist of Suns is a five-color, dual-faced legendary that we won't see in print until November: Aang, Master of Elements.

The spice is exactly what you're thinking about: With both on your battlefield, you get an Omniscience effect going, with all your spells being free. Not a combo that will redefine cEDH as we know it, of course (and we have no clue how bending will work as a mechanic, so nobody outside WotC knows how easy Aang will be to flip) but as the Standard bans this week proved, Omniscience-like effects are not to be scoffed at!

What Will Happen With Fist of Suns' Price?

“Nobody knows” would be the factual answer, which is another way of saying that this is not investment advice. Fist of Suns is definitely a fun casual card, but whether or not Avatar: The Last Airbender will make it more desirable is anybody's guess.

The spike in demand is indeed pushing inventories down:  According to TCPplayer, about 20 near-mint copies of the Commander 2017 print were traded in the last two days, and the remaining inventory was just 30 copies at the time of writing. But when you consider all printings, and all conditions, there's still ample supply to meet the higher demand, at least in the short term.

It's interesting that one of the earliest reveals is a five-color card, and Avatar's backstory bends it well to having mastery over all colors. But whether a consistent theme or just a one-of, we're still very far from knowing.

Consider your purchasing or selling options accordingly!