Card text
As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may waterbend {4}. (While paying a waterbend cost, you can tap your artifacts and creatures to help. Each one pays for {1}.)
All creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn. If this spell's additional cost was paid, whenever a creature dies this turn, you gain 1 life.
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Mana cost
{1}{B}{B}
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Card text
As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may waterbend {4}. (While paying a waterbend cost, you can tap your artifacts and creatures to help. Each one pays for {1}.)
All creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn. If this spell's additional cost was paid, whenever a creature dies this turn, you gain 1 life.
Format legality
- StandardLegal
- PioneerLegal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- AlchemyLegal
About Ruinous Waterbending
Ruinous Waterbending (118) is a Black Sorcery — Lesson from Avatar: The Last Airbender (TLA). It costs {1}{B}{B} and has mana value 3. It is printed at Uncommon rarity. It is legal in Standard, Pioneer, Modern and Legacy and 7 more formats.
Avatar: The Last Airbender is a main expansion, released November 2025.
As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may waterbend {4}. (While paying a waterbend cost, you can tap your artifacts and creatures to help. Each one pays for {1}.) All creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn. If this spell's additional cost was paid, whenever a creature dies this turn, you gain 1 life.
Card details
- Card number
- 118
- Set
- Avatar: The Last Airbender (TLA)
- Set type
- Expansion
- Released
- 21 November 2025
- Rarity
- Uncommon (U)
- Printing
- Standard
- Type line
- Sorcery — Lesson
- Colour
- Black
- Colour identity
- Black
- Mana cost
- {1}{B}{B}
- Finish
- Non-foil
TCGplayer listing: Ruinous Waterbending
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