Waterbender Ascension
- Mana cost
- {1}{U}
- Type
- Enchantment
- Set
- Avatar: The Last Airbender Promos #79s (rare)
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}.)
Waterbender Ascension has 3 printings, first in Avatar: The Last Airbender (2025). EDHREC ranks it #3,622 among Commander cards. It appears most in Avatar Aang // Aang, Master of Elements decks (14,440 on EDHREC). It has 5 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Waterbender Ascension most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Avatar Aang // Aang, Master of Elements: 14,440 decks
- Katara, the Fearless: 3,274 decks
- Sokka, Tenacious Tactician: 2,490 decks
- Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima: 1,002 decks
- Alela, Cunning Conqueror: 833 decks
- Katara, Water Tribe's Hope: 742 decks
- Aang and Katara: 736 decks
- Wan Shi Tong, All-Knowing: 673 decks
Often played with Waterbender Ascension
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : "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.