Ruthless Waterbender
- Mana cost
- {1}{B}
- Type
- Creature — Human Soldier Ally
- Power / toughness
- 1 / 3
- Set
- Avatar: The Last Airbender Eternal #110 (uncommon)
- Price
- $0.17 USD
Waterbend {2}: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn. Activate only during your turn. (While paying a waterbend cost, you can tap your artifacts and creatures to help. Each one pays for {1}.)
Ruthless Waterbender has 1 printing, first in Avatar: The Last Airbender Eternal (2025). EDHREC ranks it #17,967 among Commander cards. It appears most in Avatar Aang // Aang, Master of Elements decks (3,081 on EDHREC). It has 5 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: not legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Ruthless Waterbender most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Avatar Aang // Aang, Master of Elements: 3,081 decks
- Katara, Seeking Revenge: 29 decks
- Hama, the Bloodbender: 28 decks
- Azula, On the Hunt: 5 decks
- Zhang He, Wei General: 2 decks
Often played with Ruthless Waterbender
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : 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.
- : 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.
- : 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.
- : "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."