First printed in Avatar: The Last Airbender (2025)
Legendary Creature — Human Warrior Ally
At the beginning of your end step, if Katara is tapped, put a +1/+1 counter on her.
Waterbend 
: Draw a card. (While paying a waterbend cost, you can tap your artifacts and creatures to help. Each one pays for 
.)
"You can't knock me down!"
2/3
- Illustrated by
- Mephisto
- Watermark
- Watertribe
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)
- You can tap any untapped creature or artifact you control to pay a waterbend cost, even one you haven't controlled continuously since the beginning of your most recent turn.
- "Waterbend [cost]" means "Pay [cost]. For each generic mana in that cost, you may tap an untapped artifact or creature you control rather than pay that mana."
- If an artifact or creature you control has a mana ability with
in the cost, activating that ability while casting a spell or activating an ability with waterbend will result in the artifact or creature being tapped before you pay the spell's costs. You won't be able to tap it again for waterbend. Similarly, if you sacrifice an artifact or creature to activate a mana ability to pay a cost with waterbend, that artifact or creature won't be on the battlefield when you pay the spell's costs, so you won't be able to tap it for waterbend. - Even if the cost of the spell or ability that waterbend is part of increases or decreases, you still may only tap artifacts or creatures to pay for costs up to the amount of the generic mana in the waterbend cost.
- If a waterbend cost is part of the total cost to cast a spell or activate an ability, you may tap an untapped artifact or creature you control rather than pay one generic mana in that total cost any number of times up to a maximum of the amount of generic mana in the waterbend component of that total cost.
Prices
MTGO price: 0.003 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 | 55.8% | -0.2 | +1.3 | 26567 |
| Avatar: The Last Airbender (TLA), Sealed | 55.9% | -2.4 | +1.4 | 2539 |
- 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
Combos
30 combos, the most popular first:
- Infinite card draw, Infinite draw triggers…: Ashnod's Altar + Biomancer's Familiar + Katara, Bending Prodigy + Nadir Kraken + Parallel Lives
- Infinite card draw, Infinite draw triggers…: Ashnod's Altar + Katara, Bending Prodigy + Nadir Kraken + Parallel Lives + Training Grounds
- Infinite card draw, Infinite draw triggers…: Adrix and Nev, Twincasters + Ashnod's Altar + Katara, Bending Prodigy + Nadir Kraken + Training Grounds
- Infinite card draw, Infinite draw triggers…: Ashnod's Altar + Bard, King of Dale + Katara, Bending Prodigy + Nadir Kraken + Zirda, the Dawnwaker
- Infinite card draw, Infinite draw triggers…: Ashnod's Altar + Bard, King of Dale + Katara, Bending Prodigy + Nadir Kraken + Training Grounds
- Infinite card draw, Infinite draw triggers…: Agatha of the Vile Cauldron + Ashnod's Altar + Bard, King of Dale + Katara, Bending Prodigy + Nadir Kraken
- Infinite card draw, Infinite draw triggers…: Ashnod's Altar + Bard, King of Dale + Biomancer's Familiar + Katara, Bending Prodigy + Nadir Kraken
- Infinite card draw, Infinite draw triggers…: Anointed Procession + Ashnod's Altar + Katara, Bending Prodigy + Nadir Kraken + Zirda, the Dawnwaker
- Infinite card draw, Infinite draw triggers…: Anointed Procession + Ashnod's Altar + Katara, Bending Prodigy + Nadir Kraken + Training Grounds
- Infinite card draw, Infinite draw triggers…: Ashnod's Altar + Biomancer's Familiar + Elspeth, Storm Slayer + Katara, Bending Prodigy + Nadir Kraken
