Cruel Administrator TLA 0213 · uncommon
Cruel Administrator · {3}{B}{R} · Creature — Human Soldier · Raid — This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it if you attacked this turn. Whenever this creature attacks, create a 2/2 red Soldier creature token with firebending 1. (Whenever it attacks, add {R}. This mana lasts until end of combat.) · Power / toughness: 5/4 · "You're one mistake away from dying where you stand."
- Price
- from $0.201 printing
- Win rate
- 52.2% GIH 7,883 instances · Premier Draft
Nov 18–Dec 31, 2025 · 17Lands - Draft
- ◆ Key pickFire Nation Aggro
- Job
- Payoffs
Game-in-hand win rate, all deck colors. 4,114 wins in 7,883 card-in-hand instances.
7,249 distinct games · 2,791 distinct drafts · games recorded Nov 18–Dec 31, 2025.
17Lands file dated Jan 10, 2026 · 100-instance minimum · 17Lands public data ↗
Play creatures early and keep attacking. Firebending pays for combat tricks or abilities during combat; raid rewards you for having attacked even if the attacker did not hit the opponent.
How this changes your picks
Rules-derived- Take it when
- Attackers and ways to spend combat mana.
- What to take next
- Play creatures early and keep attacking. Firebending pays for combat tricks or abilities during combat; raid rewards you for having attacked even if the attacker did not hit the opponent.
- Wrong pick
- Firebending mana vanishes after combat; it cannot cast a normal second-main-phase creature.
- Mana & splash
- A two-color support card is usually a reason to play both colors, not a reason to stretch a third-color mana base.
Support cards
3Interactions from the card text, not a ranking.
More
- One-pick Draft
- Firebending mana vanishes after combat; it cannot cast a normal second-main-phase creature.
Draft data
−3.8 pp vs 56.0% average · 7,883 instances
Premier Draft · Nov 18–Dec 31, 2025 · average from 562,924 games
#248 of 289 nonland cards by win rate · last seen around pick 5.8 on average (64,294 packs).
49 of 55 multicolor cards · 19 of 20 multicolor uncommon cards.
23,729.8 matches
Pick and maindeck observations: Nov 18–Dec 31, 2025. Played/benched cells use matches when available; the drawn cell uses game instances.
○ Opening hand 51.2% · 3,153 instances
● Drawn later 52.8% · 4,730 instances
In hand 52.2% · 7,883 instances
Unseen in deck 51.9% · 11,014 instances
+0.3 percentage points when drawn
Compared with multicolor cards
Ranks require 100 observations for that metric; comparisons are descriptive, not a pick order. Pick ranks put earlier picks first.
Best decks for it
no-splash decks only · card-level in-hand rates · 100 minimum
Fire Nation Aggro BR54.2%3,500 instancesEach tick is this card’s all-decks rate (52.2% · 7,883 instances). A high card rate does not prove that splashing it will improve your deck.
Usually played with
Deck co-occurrence; not evidence of synergy.
Firebending Lesson8,240 games with both in the deckLightning Strike7,910 games with both in the deckSold Out7,714 games with both in the deckHow to read this
Observational, not a causal bonus. Both cards must be in the deck. Drawn means opening hand or normally drawn; each card counts once per game. Game-level approximate intervals do not account for repeated games by the same drafter.
At least 100 games in each of four drawn/not-drawn groups; adjusted for game length and screened by the lower confidence bound. Do not add these points to a card’s win rate.
Where it sits in the set
Above 14% of 289 nonland cards with 100+ instances, in win-rate order.
17Lands public datasets ↗ · CC BY 4.0 ↗ · Nov 18–Dec 31, 2025
Pick a printing for its prices and pull odds.
| Finish | Found in | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Nonfoil | Play Booster · Collector Booster | $0.20 |
| Foil | Play Booster · Collector Booster | $0.25 |
Foil in a Play Booster · Modeled · About 1 in 299 packs (0.33%) · 9.6% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →
Nonfoil in a Play Booster · Modeled · About 1 in 30 packs (3.29%) · 63.3% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →
Foil in a Collector Booster · Modeled · About 1 in 37 packs (2.73%) · 28.2% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →
How to pull it
Official rates for the whole category, not this card.
| Booster | Slot | Per pack | Category |
|---|---|---|---|
| Play Booster | Uncommons | 96.4% per position | Main set uncommon |
| Play Booster | Wildcard | 74.1% | Main set uncommon |
| Play Booster | Foil card | 36.7% | Main set uncommon |
| Collector Booster | Foil uncommons | 100% per position | Main set uncommon |
Wizards · Collecting Avatar: The Last Airbender ↗ · Oct 28, 2025
Details & sources
- Legal in
- Standard · Historic · Timeless · Pioneer · Modern · Legacy · Vintage · CommanderLimited eligibility depends on the event and its booster pool.
- Illustration
- Norikatsu Miyoshi, TLA 213 · Scryfall ↗
- More like this
- Fire Nation Aggro cards → · Regular printing printings →
- Sources
- Jubilee Finnegan · Avatar Prerelease Guide · Nov 7, 2025
Wizards · Collecting Avatar: The Last Airbender · Oct 28, 2025
Scryfall USD, snapshot Oct 25
Comprehensive Rules ↗