First printed in Avatar: The Last Airbender (2025)

Illustrated by

Rose Benjamin

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)

• 2025-10-02 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.
• 2025-10-02 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.
• 2025-10-02 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.
• 2025-10-02 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.
• 2025-10-02 "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."

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).

Win rates of North Pole Patrol in Limited

Set	GIH WR	vs set	IWD	Games
Avatar: The Last Airbender (TLA), Premier Draft	56.3%	+0.3	+1.2	24502
Avatar: The Last Airbender (TLA), Sealed	57.7%	-0.6	+1.7	719

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

155 combos, the most popular first:

• Infinite untap of legendary creatures you control, Infinite mana legendary creatures you control can produce: Ioreth of the Healing House + North Pole Patrol (+ 1 other requirement)
• Infinite self-discard triggers, Infinite draw triggers…: Ioreth of the Healing House + North Pole Patrol + Unctus, Grand Metatect
• Infinite self-discard triggers, Infinite draw triggers…: North Pole Patrol + Unctus, Grand Metatect + Vizier of Tumbling Sands
• Infinite self-discard triggers, Infinite draw triggers…: Kelpie Guide + North Pole Patrol + Unctus, Grand Metatect
• Infinite self-discard triggers, Infinite draw triggers…: Forensic Researcher + North Pole Patrol + Unctus, Grand Metatect
• Infinite untap of permanents you control, Infinite blue mana…: Freed from the Real + High Tide + North Pole Patrol
• Infinite self-discard triggers, Infinite draw triggers…: Fatestitcher + North Pole Patrol + Unctus, Grand Metatect
• Infinite untap of permanents you control, Infinite blue mana…: High Tide + North Pole Patrol + Pemmin's Aura
• Infinite self-discard triggers, Infinite draw triggers…: Clever Conjurer + North Pole Patrol + Unctus, Grand Metatect
• Infinite self-discard triggers, Infinite draw triggers…: Kiora's Follower + North Pole Patrol + Unctus, Grand Metatect

See all 155 on Commander Spellbook

• Official Oracle text on Gatherer (Wizards of the Coast)
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