First printed in Avatar: The Last Airbender (2025)
Instant — Lesson
Choose one —
• Destroy target attacking creature.
• Airbend target creature you control. (Exile it. While it's exiled, its owner may cast it for 
rather than its mana cost.)
Aang employed the typical Airbender tactics against Zuko: avoid and evade.
Legality
- Legal in
- Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Future Standard, Historic, Timeless, Alchemy, Gladiator, Commander, Duel Commander, Tiny Leaders, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Standard Brawl, Competitive Brawl
- Not legal in
- Pauper, Penny Dreadful, Premodern, Old School 93/94, Pauper Commander, PreDH
Rulings (5)
- To airbend one or more permanents and/or spells means to exile each of those objects. For each card exiled this way, for as long as it's exiled, its owner may cast it from exile by paying rather than paying its mana cost.
- Lands exiled this way cannot be played from exile. (Lands that were animated by earthbend will be returned to the battlefield tapped when they're exiled.)
- Since you are using an alternative cost to cast a spell from exile this way, you can't pay any other alternative costs. You can, however, pay additional costs, such as kicker costs. If the card has any mandatory additional costs, you must pay those.
- If the spell you cast has
in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X. - Tokens exiled this way will cease to exist and cannot be cast.
Prices
MTGO price: 0.003 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 1 Nov 2026).
Combos
28 combos, the most popular first:
- Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB…: Airbender's Reversal + Dualcaster Mage + Semblance Anvil
- Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB…: Airbender's Reversal + Dualcaster Mage + Heartless Summoning
- Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB…: Airbender's Reversal + Dualcaster Mage + Sami, Wildcat Captain
- Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB…: Airbender's Reversal + Ballad of the Black Flag + Lutri, the Spellchaser
- Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB…: Airbender's Reversal + Dualcaster Mage + Heliod, the Radiant Dawn // Heliod, the Warped Eclipse
- Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB…: Airbender's Reversal + Dualcaster Mage + Planar Gate
- Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB…: Airbender's Reversal + Dualcaster Mage + Temur Battlecrier
- Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB…: Airbender's Reversal + Lutri, the Spellchaser + Sami, Wildcat Captain
- Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB…: Airbender's Reversal + Hamza, Guardian of Arashin + Lutri, the Spellchaser
- Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB…: Airbender's Reversal + Lutri, the Spellchaser + Temur Battlecrier
