First printed in Avatar: The Last Airbender (2025)

Ruinous Waterbending

Sorcery — Lesson

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may waterbend 4 generic . (While paying a waterbend cost, you can tap your artifacts and creatures to help. Each one pays for 1 generic .)
All creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn. If this spell's additional cost was paid, whenever a creature dies this turn, you gain 1 life.

In the last 30 days 2.2% of Modern decks played it (3 of 135). Most played in BG (unclassified).

Staple

Modern staples: sideboard, 2% of decks (#94)
Black, Sorceries, Removal, Creature removal, Board wipes, Lifegain

Last 120 days of MTGO results.

Legality

Constructed

Standard Legal
Pioneer Legal
Modern Legal
Legacy Legal
Vintage Legal
Pauper Not legal
Future Standard Legal
Historic Legal
Timeless Legal
Alchemy Legal
Penny Dreadful Not legal
Premodern Not legal
Old School 93/94 Not legal

Singleton

Gladiator Legal

Commander formats

Commander Legal
Duel Commander Legal
Pauper Commander Not legal
PreDH Not legal
Tiny Leaders Legal
Oathbreaker Legal
Brawl Legal
Standard Brawl Legal
Competitive Brawl Legal

In tournament decks of the last 30 days

Modern Other periods →

In 3 of 135 decks (2.2%).

Share of decks

2.2%

vs previous 30 days

Decks

0 main, 3 sideboard

Avg. copies

–

in the main deck

Win rate

50%

0 top 8 (challenges only)

Archetypes by metagame share

Archetype	Meta	Play it
BG (unclassified)	3.0%	75%

Played together with

Not enough decks yet.

Best win rate

Deck	Record
BG goron27 in Modern Challenge 32	3-3 50%

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

Latest decks

Deck	Copies	Finish
BG Heavenscythe, 28 Oct	1 side	5-0
BG goron27, 28 Oct	1 side	5-0
BG goron27, 27 Oct	1 side	#26 3-3

No recent decks in: Standard, Pioneer, Legacy, Vintage, Duel Commander.