What is the MTG Avatar: The Last Airbender release date? The cat owl is out of the bag! Magic: The Gathering is officially getting an Avatar set as the final Standard release of 2025. Based purely on Nickelodeon’s original series The Last Airbender, it’ll follow the adventures of Aang, Sokka, Katara, and Toph in their mission to defeat Fire Lord Ozai. This guide tracks the release date, newest card reveals, and latest news for the set.
For more details on this and the other big Magic events of the year, you should also check our complete MTG release schedule – and you can see a full history of all the game’s card collections in our list of all MTG sets in order.
MTG Avatar: The Last Airbender release date
The Magic: The Gathering Avatar The Last Airbender set will be released worldwide on Friday, November 21, 2025. Wizards of the Coast announced the date in its initial reveal teaser trailer, which you can watch below.
As usual, weekend Prerelease events at local game stores will start one week earlier on Friday, November 14 – that’ll be your first chance to get your hands on the new cards.
The set MTG Avatar the Last Airbender will release on MTG Arena on November 18, a few days before the official global launch.
MTG Avatar the Last Airbender mechanics
There are a whopping seven mechanics or mechanical themes in the Avatar the Last Airbender set, four new, and three returning.
Allies are back, a creature type representing a group banding together under a common cause. Originally connected to Zendikar, we haven’t seen this tribe make a proper comeback in years!
Shrines are another oldie but goldie making a return. This subcategory of enchantment cards typically have stronger effects the more other shrines you have in play.
Lessons are the final returning mechanic – though there may only be a few of these. And there aren’t actually any Learn cards, making this more of a plant for the upcoming Strixhaven set than anything else.
Along with the returning mechanics, Each category of bending also has its own keyword with a different effect:
- Airbending exiles a card, but lets its owner cast it for two mana less – a kind of blink that could also serve as temporary removal.
- Firebending creates temporary red mana during combat
- Waterbending creatures have expensive abilities that you can make cheaper by tapping your other guys.
- Earthbending turns lands into creatures with +1/+1 counters. But they’re safe from removal, coming back into play as their regular non-creature-y selves.
Summary
That’s all we know (or can reasonably speculate) about Magic: The Gathering’s Avatar set for now – but rest assured that we’ll be reporting all the latest news on it as it comes, and keeping this guide updated with the most important info you need to know.
Excited for the MTG x Avatar set? Come hype with us in the Magic: The Gathering discussion on Wargamer’s Discord community – I promise that the Fire Nation won’t attack.
For more Magic: The Gathering news, check out our guide to Edge of Eternities, with all the latest details and card spoilers – or read our guide to the best MTG commanders in the format.
Source: Wargamer
