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How to Start a Riot TLA 0140 · common

How to Start a Riot · {2}{R} · Instant — Lesson · Target creature gains menace until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.) Creatures target player controls get +2/+0 until end of turn. · "Hey! RIOT!"

How to Start a Riot · {2}{R} · Instant — Lesson · Target creature gains menace until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.) Creatures target player controls get +2/+0 until end of turn. · "Hey! RIOT!"

Price
from $0.121 printing
Win rate
53.1% GIH 18,479 instances · Premier Draft
Nov 18–Dec 31, 2025 · 17Lands

Game-in-hand win rate, all deck colors. 9,811 wins in 18,479 card-in-hand instances.

17,645 distinct games · 6,866 distinct drafts · games recorded Nov 18–Dec 31, 2025.

17Lands file dated Jan 10, 2026 · 100-instance minimum · 17Lands public data ↗

Draft data

53.1%when drawn (GIH)

−2.9 pp vs 56.0% average · 18,479 instances

Premier Draft · Nov 18–Dec 31, 2025 · average from 562,924 games

#224 of 289 nonland cards by win rate · last seen around pick 7.6 on average (215,298 packs).

33 of 46 red cards · 9 of 13 red common cards.

Taken at pick10.727,000 picks
Makes the deck30.2%27,000 picks with known usage
When played54.2%43,869.6 matchesBenched 55.6%
95,222.4 matches
When drawn53.1%18,479 instances

Pick and maindeck observations: Nov 18–Dec 31, 2025. Played/benched cells use matches when available; the drawn cell uses game instances.

○ Opening hand 50.5% · 7,576 instances
● Drawn later 54.9% · 10,903 instances

In hand 53.1% · 18,479 instances
Unseen in deck 55.3% · 27,332 instances
−2.2 percentage points when drawn

Compared with red cards

Win rate when drawn53.1%18,479 instances33 of 46
Opening hand50.5%7,576 instances37 of 44
Drawn later54.9%10,903 instances23 of 45
In the deck54.4%45,955 instances27 of 49
Without seeing it55.3%27,332 instances19 of 47
Improvement when drawn−2.2 pp18,479 instances / 27,332 instances37 of 46
When benched55.6%95,222.4 matches28 of 53
Makes the deck30.2%27,000 picks with known usage35 of 51
Pick (last seen)7.6215,298 packs49 of 53
Taken at10.727,000 picks46 of 51

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

Go-Wide Aggro RW55.9%5,606 instancesCombat Lessons UR54.3%2,751 instancesFire Nation Aggro BR54.2%1,576 instancesEarth Rumble Ramp RG50.9%509 instances

Each tick is this card’s all-decks rate (53.1% · 18,479 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.

Yuyan Archers21,600 games with both in the deckFire Nation Cadets21,359 games with both in the deckFirebending Lesson21,308 games with both in the deck
How 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 23% of 289 nonland cards with 100+ instances, in win-rate order.

30% or lowerWin rate94% or higher

17Lands public datasets ↗ · CC BY 4.0 ↗ · Nov 18–Dec 31, 2025

Collect

1 printingScryfall USD, snapshot Oct 25Pack odds →

Pick a printing for its prices and pull odds.

Prices

TLA 0140 · Regular printingListings ↗
FinishFound inPrice
NonfoilPlay Booster · Collector Booster · Beginner Box · jumpstart · prerelease-zuko$0.12
FoilPlay Booster · Collector Booster$0.23

Foil in a Play Booster · Modeled · About 1 in 150 packs (0.67%) · 18.2% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Nonfoil in a Play Booster · Modeled · About 1 in 12 packs (8.64%) · 93.4% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Foil in a Collector Booster · Modeled · About 1 in 30 packs (3.30%) · 33.1% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Nonfoil in a jumpstart · Modeled · About 1 in 13 packs (7.58%) · 84.9% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Nonfoil in a prerelease-zuko · Modeled · About 1 in 2 packs (50.00%) · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

How to pull it

Official rates for the whole category, not this card.

BoosterSlotPer packCategory
Play BoosterCommons100% per positionMain set common
Play BoosterCommon or source material96.15384615384616%Main set common
Play BoosterWildcard4.2%Main set common
Play BoosterFoil card53.9%Main set common
Collector BoosterFoil commons100% per positionFoil commons and dual lands

Wizards · Collecting Avatar: The Last Airbender ↗ · Oct 28, 2025

Details & sources

Legal in
Standard · Historic · Timeless · Pioneer · Modern · Legacy · Pauper · Vintage · CommanderLimited eligibility depends on the event and its booster pool.
Illustration
Robin Olausson, TLA 140 · Scryfall ↗
More like this
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Sources
Wizards · Collecting Avatar: The Last Airbender · Oct 28, 2025
Scryfall USD, snapshot Oct 25
Comprehensive Rules ↗