Watery Grasp
- Mana cost
- {U}
- Type
- Enchantment — Aura
- Set
- Avatar: The Last Airbender #82 (common)
- Price
- $0.13 USD
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.
Waterbend {5}: Enchanted creature's owner shuffles it into their library. (While paying a waterbend cost, you can tap your artifacts and creatures to help. Each one pays for {1}.)
Watery Grasp has 1 printing, first in Avatar: The Last Airbender (2025). EDHREC ranks it #9,407 among Commander cards. It appears most in Avatar Aang // Aang, Master of Elements decks (4,623 on EDHREC). It has 5 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Watery Grasp most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Avatar Aang // Aang, Master of Elements: 4,623 decks
- Katara, the Fearless: 1,567 decks
- Sokka, Tenacious Tactician: 1,138 decks
- Katara, Water Tribe's Hope: 329 decks
- Wan Shi Tong, All-Knowing: 298 decks
- Aang, Swift Savior // Aang and La, Ocean's Fury: 230 decks
- Aang and Katara: 159 decks
- Wan Shi Tong, Librarian: 128 decks
Often played with Watery Grasp
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : 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 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.
- : "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."
- : 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.
- : 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.