The 24 Most Expensive and Must-Have Cards in Avatar: The Last Airbender

Pedro Furtado (djorso) December 16, 2025 Collecting, MTG Cards

Last updated on December 23, 2025

Gamble | Illustration by Irina Nordsol

So you want to crack open a pack of Avatar: The Last Airbender like a 100-year old sphere of ice and discover one of the most important people on the planet? There's a lot to look forward to in these packs, so today we check out the cards you should look for when opening your Play Boosters and Collector Boosters. Although these prices reflect the card’s playability and desirability, this isn’t a “best-of” list by any means. Before we begin, let’s divide Avatar cards into two sets:

Avatar: The Last Airbender (TLA) is the main Avatar Standard-legal set, with around 300 different cards. TLA cards can be found in Play Boosters and Collector Boosters. These are also the basis for Limited play.
Avatar: The Last Airbender Eternal (TLE) are Eternal-legal cards, so you can only play them in Commander, Legacy, or Vintage, as well as other casual formats. TLE includes around 300 different cards, including new cards and reprints. TLE cards can be found in Avatar: The Last Airbender Collector Boosters, in Avatar Jumpstart Boosters, and in Avatar Commander’s Bundles. Some cards can only be found in the Avatar Beginner Box.

TLE cards are harder to come by, so the price are generally higher. Most cards on this list are from TLE, with just a few from TLA.

Note that these prices were taken from TCGplayer in December 2025 and are subject to significant changes. We only reference the cheapest version of the card if there’s more than one version.

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#24. Hei Bai, Forest Guardian (TLE) – $13

Hei Bai, Forest Guardian is a solid card for enchantment decks and especially shrine decks. Just casting this card gives you a free shrine, and later, you can generate some 1/1 spirit tokens. It’s a strong competitor for the best shrine commander and goes toe-to-toe with Go-Shintai of Life's Origin.

#23. Aang, Airbending Master (TLE) – $14

Aang, Airbending Master is a strong addition to blink decks, because each creature you blink gives you experience counters and thus more ally tokens. Of course, this ties naturally with the airbending mechanic. And if you go wide with allies, General Tazri is a good choice for an ally commander, too.

#22. The Cabbage Merchant (TLE) – $15

The Cabbage Merchant gives you so many Food tokens for free, kind of like Rhystic Study gives you cards or Smothering Tithe gives you Treasure tokens. Its obvious place is in food decks, but lifegain decks aren’t out of the question.

#21. Fire Nation Turret (TLE) – $15

The power boost and firebending give you value the turn you build the Fire Nation Turret. Then you put all available from untapped mountains on your opponent's end step, and any excess firebending and the 50-damage shot becomes a real threat.

#20. Appa, Steadfast Guardian (TLA) – $17

Appa, Steadfast Guardian is a very versatile card and Standard-legal workhorse, and it gets played in Bant combo. You can use it on offense or defense, and get lots of value on your airbent cards. Plus, decks that synergize with allies will appreciate the extra reinforcements this card provides.

#19. Mystic Remora (TLE) – $17

Few pauper cards get all the way up to mythic rare like Mystic Remora. It plays a mana game that puts your opponents behind on mana and you up on cards. In a 1v1 match it might be more balanced like the Tui and La depict, but at a 4-player commander table, it's usually quite worth it for you to pay the cumulative upkeep for a couple of turns.

#18. Avatar Kyoshi, Earthbender (TLE) – $17

Avatar Kyoshi, Earthbender is the archetypal big card for Commander, and it reminds me of how the format was 5-6 years ago. It's a huge hexproof creature that lets you turn a land into an 8/8, not to mention you put on all these counters. That opens up many synergies, but this card is also a very cool reanimate target. You can build around it, but I am happy to put this card into the 99 of a ramp or lands matter deck.

#17. Zuko, Firebending Master (TLE) – $18

Zuko, Firebending Master sees that firebending you pull off with a Firebending Student and every combat trick in your book and turns the heat way up. This may be the best place to describe firebending as creating out of nothing.

#16. Toph, Greatest Earthbender (TLE) – $18

Toph, Greatest Earthbender has built-in commander tax-matters for a strong amount of earthbending. Sprinkle in double strike from the most casual girl in the scene box and you get a formidable Gruul commander.

#15. Katara, Waterbending Master (TLE) – $19

Katara, Waterbending Master is a nice creature to have around, but it takes work to make it work effectively. It’s cheap as a 1/3 for , but it won’t survive many attacks, so sometimes you’ll have to accept that you’ll lose Katara but get a lot of cards. It’s an excellent card in spellslinger decks, considering that you’ll rake up experience counters with ease while countering spells or cantripping.

#14. Worldly Tutor (TLE) – $19

Yes, tutors are expensive, and Worldly Tutor isn’t an exception. You can similar priced versions of this card in the $15-20 range. Avatar’s adorable Uncle Iroh art thankfully does not drive up this card’s price, so take your pick, and Iroh is not for you, go for classic art in the original Mirage one.

#13. Avatar Roku, Firebender (TLE) – $20

This card is a very flavorful mythic. With Avatar Roku, Firebender around, you get better than firebending 6. At minimum, you can use this mana to give +3/+0 to a creature twice. The best part is that you can do this even if you’re being attacked. It turns into a ton of free red mana, ripe for a red commander.

#12. The Walls of Ba Sing Se (TLA) – $21

The Walls of Ba Sing Se withstood the might of the Fire Nation. This card is one of the biggest memes from the set. It has 30 toughness, and it’s also a kind of Darksteel Forge. Many defender decks love this card, and many toughness-based interactions love to use it instead of something like Tree of Perdition.

#11. Deadly Rollick (TLE) – $26

Free spells are good, right? Deadly Rollick is one of the best spot removal spells in Commander simply because it’s free most of the time. Just casting your commander and following it up with a removal spell is a good tempo play, too.

#10. Earthbending Student (TLE) – $26

Earthbending Student is a fine card, but not at this price point. So why is this student so expensive? It is meant for Avatar's Jumpstart, but only got printed into Collector Boosters, as in, one TLE uncommon shows up in a given Avatar Collector Booster, and that slot is shared with 4 scene cards, 14 cards from the beginner box and 32 other jumpstart uncommons. It's a neat collector's find, but if you just want to try playing with it, craft it on Arena.

#9. Enlightened Tutor (TLE) – $27

Tutors are expensive, and they don’t see enough reprints for the price to go down. This version of Enlightened Tutor shows a very special moment when Aang communes with previous Avatars, and the art is stunning. If I wanted to get this card, I’d go with this version, as there’s not a big price increase in comparison with the older ones.

#8. Wan Shi Tong, Librarian (TLA) – $34

Wan Shi Tong, Librarian is one of the premium TLA cards. It's very powerful and flexible, perfect for draw-go decks as a mix of a finisher and card draw spell. It also has the opportunistic patterns of Orcish Bowmasters, and it feels good to draw cards while your opponents fetch for lands, for example.

#7. Teferi’s Protection (TLE) – $34

Teferi's Protection is a white staple in Commander, and a card nearly every white deck wants to run. The steep price is usually the highest impediment, and the Avatar version doesn’t help much in this regard. The biggest reason the price on this would dip much is if Wizards moved it from the Game Changer list to the Commander ban list, otherwise, expect it to hold plenty of value.

#6. Force of Negation (TLE) – $35

Force of Negation is one of the few cards on this list that’s not only good in EDH and cEDH, but also sees play in other Eternal formats like Legacy and Vintage. It’s basically a free Negate in blue decks, and it’s a key card to win counter wars, stop your opponent’s turn-0 combos in many formats, or just protect a key threat you might have. The original version can be more expensive than this one, so I hope you appreciate the Avatar special treatment.

#5. The Banyan Tree / The Great Henge (TLE) – $47

Initially, I thought that this card’s price was high because it was a special Avatar reprint, but boy, was I mistaken. The Great Henge is a big EDH staple that provides everything you want in a green deck: cards, life, and +1/+1 counters. It remains an expensive card, and its other versions run in the $60-80 range.

#4. Toph, Earthbending Master (TLE) – $48

Avatar: The Last Airbender has a full cycle of legendary cards that work with experience counters, and I’ll always think of good experience counter cards we already have like Meren of Clan Nel Toth or Otharri, Suns' Glory. If you want to build around this card, Toph, Earthbending Master delivers. Landfall is easy to trigger, and you’ll be attacking and earthbending in no time.

#3. Badgermole Cub (TLA) – $48

The most expensive card from TLA is Badgermole Cub, a very pushed card that’s proven its value with explosive starts. This card gives you a 2/2 and a 1/1 land for just 2 mana, and mana dorks you control generate 1 more mana than they would generate normally. This will, of course, work with earthbended lands. It is common for this card to ramp a 5- or 6-drop well ahead of the curve.

#2. Fierce Guardianship (TLE) – $51

Potentially free spells like Fierce Guardianship tend to find their way into competitive environments, and in cEDH, this card is a must-have to fight enemy combos, protect your commander from removal, or help your own key spells resolve. Joining the ranks of free counterspells with downsides, like Force of Negation and Force of Will, this one’s biggest downside is that it costs if you don’t control your commander.

#1. Deflecting Swat (TLE) – $61

The regular Deflecting Swat goes for anything between $50-80, so it’s no surprise that the number #1 in our list, Avatar’s Deflecting Swat, goes for 60 bucks. This card is usually free to cast, especially if you run inexpensive commanders like Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh. You can use it to interfere in counter wars, redirect good abilities to yourself, change the target of a removal spell, and so much more.

Cards Between $5-10

Cards Between $10-15

Promos, Alternate Art, and More

Avatar: The Last Airbender has a lot of alternate version cards with special art treatments, both in TLA and TLE. Let’s discuss them in greater detail.

Borderless Raised Foil Avatar Aang

The only raised foil card in this set, Avatar Aang / Aang, Master of Elements is the chase card of Avatar: The Last Airbender. It’s nothing crazy like The Soul Stone from Marvel’s Spider-Man, but still, it’s a card that fetches a pretty high price, around the $3,400 range. You can find this in Collector Boosters.

Borderless Scene Cards: Books 1-3

Each book in Avatar has a borderless scene, with four cards in Book 1, six cards in Book 2, and nine cards in Book 3. The different books show the beginning, the middle, and the end of Aang’s story.

For example, these six cards show the chaotic end of Book 2 battle involving Prince Zuko and his sister Azula:

These cards can be found in Play Boosters and Collector Boosters, both in foil and non-foil treatments.

Commander’s Bundle Cards

Each Commander’s Bundle has five cards, three of them being Sol Ring, Arcane Signet, and Swiftfoot Boots. The other two can be any from a list of 10 reprints, including Commander staples like Deadly Rollick and Enlightened Tutor.

Source Material Cards

For each one of the 61 Avatar: The Last Airbender episodes, there’s a different source material card. These can be found in Play Boosters (non-foil versions) and Collector Boosters (foil versions). These are all TLE cards and reprints. They combine classic MTG cards with famous scenes from the show.

Borderless Field Notes

These cards reflect the creatures found across Aang’s journey, conveying a unique feel. There are 15 of these in TLA, including Appa, Steadfast Guardian, Momo, Friendly Flier, and Tiger-Seal.

Borderless Field Notes cards can be found in Play Boosters and Collector Boosters, in both foil and nonfoil treatments.

Borderless Neon Ink Battle Pose Cards

These four cards depict Aang and his elemental bending teachers in gorgeous, colorful battle poses:

These are also textless, and you’ll find them in Collector Boosters.

Borderless Double-Faced Sagas

Five mythic rares from TLA are sagas that received this special treatment. These can also be found in TLA Play Boosters and Collector Boosters, in both foil and nonfoil versions:

Wrap Up

Deadly Rollick | Illustration by Irina Nordsol

And that brings us to the end of Avatar: The Last Airbender’s most expensive cards. With about 500-600 cards between TLA and TLE, there’s a lot to be collected in these sets.

TLE has a high profile of reprints considering the free Commander spells, tutors, and more, so these dominate the list. But TLA has a lot of high-value cards that fare pretty well, so it’s not good set to open. I think it was just the Universes Beyond set to reenergize MTG after Marvel’s Spider-Man.

What are your takes on the most expensive cards? Did the hype deliver for you? Let me know in the comments, or let’s discuss it over on the Draftsim Discord.

Thank you for reading, and go rewatch your favorite episode! If you haven't watched the Avatar series, it is a finite three seasons of an excellent story.

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Pedro Furtado (djorso)

Pedro started playing Magic way back when in Fourth Edition. After a long hiatus, he now plays mostly MTG Arena Standard and Limited. His biggest MTG regret is trading a bunch of Force of Wills for Serra Angels.

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