Waterbender Ascension

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Waterbender Ascension: Enchantment, Avatar: The Last Airbender. MTG card printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.

Mana cost
{1}{U}
Mana value
2
Type
Enchantment
Colour identity
Blue (U)
Rarity
Rare
Set
Avatar: The Last Airbender (TLA)
Released
2025-11-21
Collector number
79
Artist
Takeuchi Moto
Commander rank
3,946 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
Keywords
Waterbend

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About Waterbender Ascension

Waterbender Ascension is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare blue enchantment from Avatar: The Last Airbender (TLA), an expansion set released in November 2025. It is collector number 79 in that set, with art by Takeuchi Moto. It costs {1}{U} (one generic and one blue mana) to cast, for a mana value of 2. Its colour identity is blue. It is legal in Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Standard Brawl, Historic, Timeless, Alchemy, Gladiator and Penny Dreadful. It has been printed in 2 sets. The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.67 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-12).

Card text

Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, put a quest counter on this enchantment. Then if it has four or more quest counters on it, draw a card.

Waterbend {4}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn. (While paying a waterbend cost, you can tap your artifacts and creatures to help. Each one pays for {1}.)

Market price

Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.67 (as of 2026-11-12).

The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.

Format legality

Legality of Waterbender Ascension by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.

StandardLegal
PioneerLegal
ModernLegal
LegacyLegal
VintageLegal
CommanderLegal
Duel CommanderLegal
OathbreakerLegal
BrawlLegal
Standard BrawlLegal
HistoricLegal
TimelessLegal
AlchemyLegal
GladiatorLegal
Penny DreadfulLegal

Other printings of Waterbender Ascension

Waterbender Ascension has been printed in 2 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.

PrintingRarityYear
Avatar: The Last Airbender Promos (PTLA) #79sRare2025
Avatar: The Last Airbender (TLA) #310Rare2025

Official rulings

Five official rulings apply to Waterbender Ascension, newest first.

  • "Waterbend [cost]" means "Pay [cost]. For each generic mana in that cost, you may tap an untapped artifact or creature you control rather than pay that mana."
  • Even if the cost of the spell or ability that waterbend is part of increases or decreases, you still may only tap artifacts or creatures to pay for costs up to the amount of the generic mana in the waterbend cost.
  • If an artifact or creature you control has a mana ability with {T} in the cost, activating that ability while casting a spell or activating an ability with waterbend will result in the artifact or creature being tapped before you pay the spell's costs. You won't be able to tap it again for waterbend. Similarly, if you sacrifice an artifact or creature to activate a mana ability to pay a cost with waterbend, that artifact or creature won't be on the battlefield when you pay the spell's costs, so you won't be able to tap it for waterbend.
  • If a waterbend cost is part of the total cost to cast a spell or activate an ability, you may tap an untapped artifact or creature you control rather than pay one generic mana in that total cost any number of times up to a maximum of the amount of generic mana in the waterbend component of that total cost.
  • You can tap any untapped creature or artifact you control to pay a waterbend cost, even one you haven't controlled continuously since the beginning of your most recent turn.

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