The Rise of Sozin Is a Powerhouse… But Expensive

The Rise of Sozin

• The Rize of Sozin 4BB
• Enchantment – Saga
• 1. Destroy all creatures.
  2. Choose a card name. Search target opponent’s graveyard, hand, and library for up to four cards with that name and exile them. Then that player shuffles.
  3. Exile this Saga, then return it to the battlefield transformed under your control.
• 5/5

This card is powerful.

Chapter One is a Day of Judgment in black… But it’s six mana.

Chapter Two is a “free” Cranial Extraction. So you overpaid for your Wrath of God effect by two… But then you got four mana back! That can be very cool. Like you can take away the opponent’s potential counter-play, regardless of their archetype. And it’s not like you’re tapping four (or six) mana on your own turn again.

So here’s the thing: You basically have Fire Lord Sozin on “Suspend 2”.
The overall package is super mana efficient.

The question is if that super efficient total kit is worth the bridge of overpaying for your sweeper up front.

Patrick thinks The Rise of Sozin is so great that we’ll build our decks to make six mana cheap enough!

Black in Avatar: The Last Airbender Has LOTS of Powerful Threats

Phoenix Fleet Airship

• Phoenix Fleet Airship 2BB
• Artifact – Vehicle
• Flying
  At the beginning of your end step, if you sacrificed a permanent this turn, create a token that’s a copy of this Vehicle.

  As long as you control eight or more permanents named Phoenix Fleet Airship, this Vehicle is an artifact creature.

  Crew 1

• 4/4

This card is so easy to snowball.

What if it’s turn three and you already had a Treasure token in play?

You sacrifice the Treasure to make a black mana, get this Vehicle in play. And by that we mean two Vehicles.

Phoenix Fleet Airship demands a little planning, but it can go wider and wider just by doing the things you were going to do anyway, like sacrificing an Evolving Wilds to get your lands in play.

Mike thinks Phoenix Fleet Airship is so breakable that it will define how other colors choose their cards. We just got done talking about The Rise of Sozin… But for example in white? Mike thinks Split Up and Day of Judgment will give way to Ultima.

Oh… And there’s the actual cross-format Staple that is going to come out of black. It’s going to kick all kinds of butt in Pioneer, Modern, and maybe even Legacy! Which card is it? Find out in our full black review of Avatar: The Last Airbender!