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How to Start a Riot

First printed in Avatar: The Last Airbender (2025)

How to Start a Riot

Instant — Lesson

Target creature gains menace until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
Creatures target player controls get +2/+0 until end of turn.

"Hey! RIOT!"

Illustrated by
Robin Olausson

Legality

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).

Win rates of How to Start a Riot in Limited
Set GIH WR vs set IWD Games
Avatar: The Last Airbender (TLA), Premier Draft 53.4% -2.6 -2.0 17645
Avatar: The Last Airbender (TLA), Sealed 49.9% -8.4 -3.6 515
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

Pauper In 2 of 1835 decks (0.1%), most in Ruby Storm

Share of decks
0.1%
▲ 0.1 vs previous 30 days
2026-08-10: 0.0% 2026-08-17: 0.0% 2026-08-24: 0.0% 2026-08-31: 0.0% 2026-09-07: 0.0% 2026-09-14: 0.0% 2026-09-21: 0.0% 2026-09-28: 0.1% 2026-10-05: 0.5% 2026-10-12: 0.0% 2026-10-19: 0.0% 2026-10-26: 0.0%
Weekly, last 90 days
Decks
2
0 main, 2 sideboard
Avg. copies
–
in the main deck
Win rate
67%
1 top 8 (challenges only)

Archetypes by metagame share

Archetype Meta Play it
Ruby Storm 4.1% 1%
RG (unclassified) 2.2% 2%

Played together with

Not enough decks yet.

Best win rate

DeckRecord
RG
Briar Putz in From The Vault: Pauper 10 $1K
4-2
67%

Challenges only: MTGO publishes only the 5-0 league decks.

Latest decks

DeckCopiesFinish
RG
Briar Putz,
1 side #8 (top 8)
of 50
4-2
Ruby Storm
PrincessLTheFirst,
1 side #30
of 33
0-3