First printed in Avatar: The Last Airbender (2025)
Creature — Human Soldier
This creature has firebending 2 as long as there's a Lesson card in your graveyard. (Whenever this creature attacks, add 
. This mana lasts until end of combat.)
: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.
Fire Nation training ensures that even the smallest flame burns into a raging inferno.
1/2
- Illustrated by
- Rafater
- Watermark
- Firenation
Legality
- Legal in
- Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, Future Standard, Historic, Timeless, Alchemy, Gladiator, Commander, Duel Commander, Pauper Commander, Tiny Leaders, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Standard Brawl, Competitive Brawl
- Not legal in
- Penny Dreadful, Premodern, Old School 93/94, PreDH
Rulings (6)
- Firebending abilities aren't mana abilities. They use the stack and can be responded to.
- You must have a Lesson card in your graveyard while you attack with Fire Nation Cadets in order for the firebending 2 ability to trigger. If you put a Lesson card into your graveyard after Fire Nation Cadets has attacked, Fire Nation Cadets will still gain firebending 2, but the ability will not trigger.
- Multiple instances of firebending on the same creature trigger separately, each granting you the appropriate amount of mana.
- "Firebending N" is a keyword that represents the ability "Whenever this creature attacks, add N . Until end of combat, you don't lose this mana as steps end."
- Mana from firebending abilities isn't lost until you leave combat and go to your second main phase. It can be used at any time during combat, even after combat damage has been dealt.
- Any other mana you add during combat will still be lost as normal when moving between steps of combat.
Prices
MTGO price: 0.002 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 1 Nov 2026).
In Limited on MTG Arena
Win rates in Arena drafts and sealed, retrieved from 17Lands (CC BY 4.0).
| Set | GIH WR | vs set | IWD | Games |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avatar: The Last Airbender (TLA), Premier Draft | 57.2% | +1.2 | +1.8 | 40703 |
| Avatar: The Last Airbender (TLA), Sealed | 54.3% | -4.0 | +2.9 | 998 |
- GIH WR
- win rate of the games in which the card was in the opening hand or drawn
- vs set
- points above or below the average win rate of all decks in the set
- IWD
- improvement when drawn: GIH WR minus the win rate when the card stayed in the library
- Games
- games in which the card was seen