South Wind Avatar

Creature — Snake Spirit Avatar

Deathtouch
Whenever another creature you control dies, you gain life equal to its toughness.
Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.

Snake-Eyes's gift takes others back to their worst memory. To the weak, it is a curse; to the wise, a second chance.

3/4

Legality

Legal in: Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Future Standard, Historic, Timeless, Alchemy, Penny Dreadful, Gladiator, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Standard Brawl, Competitive Brawl
Not legal in: Pauper, Premodern, Old School 93/94, Pauper Commander, PreDH, Tiny Leaders

2026-01-27 In a Two-Headed Giant game, life gained by your teammate won't cause South Wind Avatar's last ability to trigger, even though it caused your team's life total to increase.
2026-01-27 If you gain an amount of life "for each" of something or "equal to the number" of something, that life is gained as one event and South Wind Avatar's last ability will trigger only once.
2026-01-27 Use the creature's toughness as it last existed on the battlefield to determine how much life you gain with South Wind Avatar's second ability.
2026-01-27 Each creature with lifelink dealing combat damage causes a separate life-gaining event. For example, if two creatures you control with lifelink deal combat damage at the same time, South Wind Avatar's last ability will trigger twice. However, if a single creature you control with lifelink deals combat damage to multiple creatures, players, planeswalkers, and/or battles at the same time (perhaps because it has trample or was blocked by more than one creature), the ability will trigger only once.
2026-01-27 South Wind Avatar's last ability triggers just once for each life-gaining event, whether it's 1 life from Illegitimate Business or 3 life from Guac & Marshmallow Pizza.

MTGO price: 0.006 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 1 Nov 2026).

Win rates in Arena drafts and sealed, retrieved from 17Lands (CC BY 4.0).

Win rates of South Wind Avatar in Limited
Set	GIH WR	vs set	IWD	Games
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMT), Premier Draft	56.6%	-0.2	+1.5	3228
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMT), Sealed	59.1%	+1.5	+1.9	941

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

125 combos, the most popular first:

Archetype	Meta	Play it
K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth	0.8%	2%
Chatterfang, Squirrel General	0.3%	5%
Yawgmoth, Thran Physician	0.1%	50%
Grenzo, Dungeon Warden	0.1%	25%
Oloro, Ageless Ascetic	0.0%	50%
Ayara, First of Locthwain	0.0%	100%

Deck	Record
Grenzo, Dungeon Warden Phil Cooper [TILT] in Mulligan Championship Series - October w/ Guaranteed Volcanic Island	3-2 60%
Oloro, Ageless Ascetic Glenn Brown in Deck Factory cEDH $1K event	0-5 0%
K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth felipe zepeda in 2do Clasificatorio Nacional cEDH 2026 Sede La Serena	0-5 0%

Deck	Copies	Finish
Yawgmoth, Thran Physician James Petersen, 25 Oct	1 main	#21 of 59 1-2
Yawgmoth, Thran Physician Riccardo Norcini, 25 Oct	1 main	#4 (top 8) of 19 2-2
Chatterfang, Squirrel General Roberto Sanchez II, 18 Oct	1 main	#24 of 51 1-3
Ayara, First of Locthwain Luis Azorín, 16 Oct	1 main	#1 (top 8) of 22 2-0
Oloro, Ageless Ascetic Glenn Brown, 11 Oct	1 main	#38 of 38 0-5
K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth felipe zepeda, 10 Oct	1 main	#40 of 41 0-5
Grenzo, Dungeon Warden Phil Cooper [TILT], 4 Oct	1 main	#5 (top 8) of 69 3-2
Yawgmoth, Thran Physician James Colwell, 3 Oct	1 main	#41 of 68 0-2