Aang, Swift Savior Might Be the Best Card in Avatar: The Last Airbender

Go go Swift Savior!

• Aang, Swift Savior – 1WU
• Legendary Creature — Human Avatar Ally
• Flash
  Flying
  When Aang enters, airbend up to one other target creature or spell. (Exile it. While it’s exiled, its owner may cast it for {2} rather than its mana cost.)Waterbend {8}: Transform Aang.
• 2/3

Now that is an Avatar!

Patrick thinks that Appa, Steadfast Guardian is going to get banned. That Aang is going to get the big Bison banned. By contrast, Mike’s vote for the ban hammer is this Avatar.

Here’s the thing: They’re both going to contribute to a powerful combo deck. Appa is arguably the more important component, admittedly. But Aang is just too filthy of a Magic: The Gathering card. Compare Aang to both Reflector Mage. Boom! Reflector Mage was banned in Standard. Or compare Aang, Swift Savoir to Spell Queller (i.e. Mike’s least favorite card to play against in its day).

The Swift Savior is wild in a fair deck… But who is in it for a fair deck?

But That’s Not All… Get Ready for Bear-Bending

Doc Aurlock, Grizzled Genius

The combo here is with Doc Aurlock, Grizzled Genius.

Doc was obviously designed to work with the Plot mechanic. But its exile discounting works just as well with airbending.

So with Doc Aurlock, Grizzled Genius in play, you can loop Aang, Swift Savior and Appa, Steadfast Guardian to generate infinite power (via Allies tokens) as early as turn three or four! So… Who do you think is going to get banned, Aang or Appa? Or no one?

So Long and Thanks for All The Fish

Aang, Swift Savior might be the best gold card in ATLA, but it’s not the only amazing one. Azula, other versions of Aang, and Dragonfly Swarm are all going to see play; some of them broadly.

Check out what Mike and Patrick think of all the Avatar gold cards here: