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While it's hard to top the explosive popularity of this year's Final Fantasy crossover, Magic: The Gathering and its latest universe in collaboration with Avatar: The Last Airbender have brought plenty of fantastic cards into the mix. From powerful new staples to incredibly flavorful additions that take full advantage of the source material, Magic: The Gathering's newest crossover is everything an Avatar: The Last Airbender fan could ask for.
Of course, with every new set comes a plethora of cards that soar in value after opening, with ultra-rare variants and full art of your favorite characters with secret details easily rising to the top. Even though the best cards from MTG's latest ATLA set are still stabilizing, it's easy to tell which ones are going to be worth the investment if you manage to unpack one in the wild.
All cards are listed in USD according to TCGPlayer's average market price at the time of writing, which is subject to change over time.
Fierce Guardianship (Showcase)
Being a visually stunning reprint of an excellent commander staple featuring a waterbending Katara, it's easy to see how Fierce Guardianship is one of the most expensive cards from MTG's ATLA set, costing you a market price of $59.56 if you want to get a hold of it yourself.
Although Fierce Guardianship's LTE signage means it's not legal in standard formats, its real ability only comes out during commander matches anyway, offering a free counterspell that's pretty hard to beat as long as you have a commander on the field. While ATLA's version of Fierce Guardianship is currently more expensive than its previous printings, it just goes to show how massively popular Universes Beyond sets have become over the years.
Deflecting Swat (Showcase)
The next most expensive showcase card is Deflecting Swat, which follows the same trend as Fierce Guardianship of adapting a highly sought-after commander card with another gorgeous Showcase rendition of an iconic ATLA character, with Prince Zuko. Despite the high asking price of $67.70, ATLA's variation of Deflecting Swat is already lower than some other variations, despite its recency, potentially offering a cheaper alternative for this powerful commander card.
Allowing you to choose new targets for any spell or ability at your disposal, Deflecting Swat has the potential to be a massively destructive counterspell outside the traditional blue format, being an incredibly versatile ability even without its 0 mana cost, barring the fact that you have a commander in play.
Badgermole Cub
With its two mana cost making Badgermole Cub an incredibly unsuspecting card, its powerful ability easily helps it to stack up to its status as a legendary rarity card. On top of letting you earthbend 1 upon entering, Badgermole Cub's ability to add additional green mana whenever you tap any creature for mana has excellent combo potential, so long as you can pay its high $70.39 pricetag.
The real strength of Badgermole Cub, aside from its excellent ramp potential for a myriad of deck types, comes from its wide versatility with other Eartbending cards. With plenty of creatures and spells transforming your lands into creatures themselves, you'll have no trouble taking advantage of Badgermole Cub's ability in an earthbending ATLA deck, allowing you to quickly overwhelm opponents with little setup required.
Toph, Earthbending Master (Extended Art)
Being one of the few ATLA cards that has been steadily rising in price over the past few weeks, Toph, Earthbending Master, is an excellent addition to any landfall deck, allowing you to quickly ramp up her experience tokens to unleash a consistent barrage of powerful Earthbending attacks.
Currently priced at a market of $72.66, Toph's powerful Landfall ability is well desrving of its spot on this list, with each land played granting her an experience token that allows you to Earthbend for the same amount every time you attack. Offering both a powerful creature engine and an end-game finisher all in one, it's hard not to love MTG's ATLA crossover with flavorful cards like this.
Wan Shi Tong, Librarian (Borderless)
Being one of the few cards on this list not depicting members of the main ATLA cast, Wan Shi Tong, Librarian's appeal doesn't come from its initial entrance trigger, but its ability slowly ramp up in power as each opponent searches their decks. With fetchlands and other deck searches being an incredibly common sight in MTG, it's an easy staple for blue decks that want to combo off Tong's triggers with ease.
Coasting you a market average of $82.02, Wan Shi Tong, Librarian's entrance ability isn't anything to scoff at either, granting him +1/+1 tokens and half card draw for each mana played. Even outside its in-game abilities, Tong's ability to gain power as opponents search through thier 'libraries' is an incredibly flavorful addition to the set, making it one of the many clear examples of how much love was put into this MTG crossover.
Badgermole Cub (Borderless)
Being a borderless variation of the previous Badgermole Club, there isn't much to say about this more expensive version, except that its clearly popular enough to warrant its $88.26 market price tag. While the expensive cost of Badgermole Club is a high bar to entry in the real world, the same isn't the case for its explosive use on Arena.
Being an incredibly powerful card in standard, Badgermole Club can provide some immensly powerful early game wings, allowing you to set up a board stage with little additional effort. While it's too early to say if Badgermole Cub will end up being banned from certain formats in the future, if past collaboration cards like Vivi Ornitier are anything to go by, it's only a matter of time before an official ruling.
Katara, the Fearless (Borderless) (Neon Ink Foil)
Being the first of ATLA's Borderless Neon Ink Foil's featuring each of the four elements, MTG makes it incredibly easy to spot what chase cards to look for as you unbox your collector packs. Depicting Katara in front of the symbol for water, Katara, The Fearless is the first card to make the jump into the hundreds tier, costing a whopping $719.35 on average at market to purchase.
While it's hard to tell what Katara, The Fearless does at first glance without its ability text, she's a 3/3 legendary creature that duplicates the number of triggers Ally cards you control create, allowing for a cascade of abilities during a match. While this does limit Katara's versatility outside the ATLA set itself, it's an incredibly powerful companion to other cards within it.
Fire Lord Zuko (Borderless) (Neon Ink Foil)
Although Fire Lord Zuko's Borderless Neon Ink Foil variant has dropped far below its initial price, it's not going down without a fight for an average market cost of $875.66. Similar to the previous Neon Ink variation, the card itself depicts the silhouette of Zuko in front of a fire nation symbol, easily making it one of the most iconic cards in the set.
While the main draw of these cards comes from the severe rarity of their Neon Ink Foil variations, as the abilities are the same as their drastically cheaper counterparts, which still offer some creative combo potential. With Firebending equal to his power, Fire Lord Zuko also adds +1/+1 counters to all controlled creatures whenever you cast a spell from exile, allowing you to quickly ramp up in scale if left unchecked.
Toph, the First Metalbender (Borderless) (Neon Ink Foil)
It's no secret that Earthbending has been one of the most flavorful additions to come out of the MTG X ATLA this year, with Toph, the First Metalbender's Neon Ink Foil variant being no exception, as noted by its currently averaging $921.28 price tag. While the original variant is a little pricier than Katara and Zuko, its still drastically cheaper than this specialized foil edition if you wanted to get a hold of it yourself.
Toph's Nontoken artifact lands cannot gain the ability to tap for mana.
In terms of abilities, Toph, the First Metalbender allows all nontoken artifacts to be lands in addition to their other types, while Earthbending 2 at the beginning of every end step. While not too powerful on its own, Toph's primary strength comes from letting you still get the benefits of your full mana pool by temporarily Earthbending artifacts instead, while doubling the mana potential of cards like Chromatic Lantern if activated in the correct order.
Aang, Swift Savior (Borderless) (Neon Ink Foil)
It's little surprise that the most coveted card to come out of the MTG X ATLA set features none other than Aang himself, but the astounding market price of $1,144.11 is more than a little surprising to say the least. Being an incredibly rare variant of the regular card, which comes at a fraction of the cost, Aang, Swift Savior is easily the most desirable chase card of the set.
On top of having Flash and Flying, Aang, Swift Savior can airbend one other target creature or spell, but its main abilities come out after paying 8 mana through Waterbending to transform Aang. After transforming, Aang transitions into Aang and La, Ocean's Fury, a 5/5 creature with Reach, Trample, that adds a +1/+1 counter on each tapped creature you control upon attacking.
While Aang and La, Ocean's Fury isn't the most game-changing transformation, having a double-sided, Borderless Neon Ink Foil is an incredibly rare sight to come by, being one of the most visually stunning, and worthwhile cards from Magic: The Gathering's latest Universes Beyond set.
Magic: The Gathering
Release Date
August 5, 1993
Main Genre
Fantasy
Created by
Richard Garfield
Video Game(s)
Magic: The Gathering, Magic the Gathering Commander, Magic: The Gathering - Battlegrounds, Magic the Gathering: Duels of the Planeswalkers 2012, Magic: The Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalkers, Magic: The Gathering – Duels of the Planeswalkers 2012, Magic: The Gathering – Duels of the Planeswalkers 2013, Magic: The Gathering – Duels of the Planeswalkers 2014, Magic: The Gathering Arena
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Jace Beleren, Chandra Nalaar, Liliana Vess, Garruk Wildspeaker, Nissa Revane, Ajani Goldmane, Nicol Bolas, Teferi, Gideon Jura, Sorin Markov, Ral Zarek
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