Five-ColorLegendary Creature — Human Avatar Ally // Legendary Creature — Avatar AllyAvatar Aang // Aang, Master of Elements
Mana value4Rank#7,594
The Commander
Flying, firebending 2
Whenever you waterbend, earthbend, firebend, or airbend, draw a card. Then if you've done all four this turn, transform Avatar Aang.
Flying
Spells you cast cost less to cast. (This can reduce generic costs.)
At the beginning of each upkeep, you may transform Aang, Master of Elements. If you do, you gain 4 life, draw four cards, put four +1/+1 counters on him, and he deals 4 damage to each opponent.
Guide
Gameplan
Aang is a five-color value engine: assemble cards with the four bending keywords (water, earth, fire, air) and trigger draws every time you bend, while looking to perform all four in one turn to flip into Aang, Master of Elements. Once flipped, your spells effectively cost WUBRG less, and each upkeep you can flip back for 4 life, four cards, four counters, and 4 damage to each opponent, snowballing card advantage into a lethal burn/beatdown finish.
Strengths
- Relentless card advantage—every bend draws a card, and the flip nets four more plus repeatable upkeep draws.
- Built-in evasion (flying) and a recurring three-player burn clock that can win without combat.
- Massive cost reduction on the back side lets you chain expensive bombs and rebuild fast.
- Full five-color identity opens the best removal, ramp, and tutors in the format.
Weaknesses
- Needs a critical mass of bending sources to reliably hit all four types in a turn.
- Five-color mana base is greedy and prone to stumbling without strong fixing.
- High-value commander that draws removal; losing Aang stalls the engine.
- Front side is a fragile 3-power flyer with no protection of its own.
Key Cards
- Avatar Aang — The whole deck is built to enable his draw-on-bend trigger and the four-element flip.
- Smothering Tithe — Generates the surplus mana a five-color engine craves while you spend cards rebending each turn.
- Esika's Chariot — A flexible, color-light value bomb that's trivially cheap once Aang's cost reduction is online.
- Cultivate — Ramp and color fixing are non-negotiable to consistently access all five colors for bending and flips.
- Teferi's Protection — Protects your flipped Aang and life total during the turns the burn engine is racing opponents.
Upgrade Path
Prioritize flawless mana—dual lands, fetches, and ramp like Chromatic Lantern and mana rocks so you always have all five colors for bending and flipping. Add a dense package of bending-keyword permanents to guarantee hitting all four types each turn, plus protection (Heroic Intervention, Lightning Greaves) to keep Aang alive. Top end should be efficient finishers and tutors (Demonic Tutor, Eladamri's Call) to find your engine pieces, leaning into the cost reduction with high-impact spells.
Core Cards
The most-played cards for this commander, built from aggregated deck data (the Mythic Graph). Build public decks to seed it.
Win Conditions
- ▸Repeated upkeep flips dealing 4 to each opponent until the table dies to burn.
- ▸An evasive, counter-stacked Aang closing out games in the air.
- ▸Casting an overwhelming board of value bombs at WUBRG discounts and grinding opponents out.
- ▸A finisher spell (e.g., big X-burn or a token swarm) deployed cheaply once the engine is online.
Archetypes
- Five-Color Goodstuff — WUBRG identity plus huge cost reduction rewards jamming the format's strongest standalone cards.
- Value/Card Advantage Engine — Bending triggers and the upkeep flip turn every turn into a draw-and-burn cycle that buries opponents in resources.
- Burn/Aristocrats Finish — Repeated 4-damage-to-each-opponent flips provide an incremental, non-combat kill.
- Voltron Beatdown — +1/+1 counters and flying make Aang a fast, evasive clock when you'd rather connect for damage.
Combos
No combos found for this commander on Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (BGRUW), by popularity.
