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Ruinous Waterbending TLA 0118 · uncommon

Ruinous Waterbending · {1}{B}{B} · Sorcery — Lesson · As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may waterbend {4}. (While paying a waterbend cost, you can tap your artifacts and creatures to help. Each one pays for {1}.) 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.

Ruinous Waterbending · {1}{B}{B} · Sorcery — Lesson · As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may waterbend {4}. (While paying a waterbend cost, you can tap your artifacts and creatures to help. Each one pays for {1}.) 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.

Price
from $0.231 printing
Win rate
51.5% GIH 3,747 instances · Premier Draft
Nov 18–Dec 31, 2025 · 17Lands

Game-in-hand win rate, all deck colors. 1,931 wins in 3,747 card-in-hand instances.

3,634 distinct games · 1,491 distinct drafts · games recorded Nov 18–Dec 31, 2025.

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

Draft data

51.5%when drawn (GIH)

−4.5 pp vs 56.0% average · 3,747 instances

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

#257 of 289 nonland cards by win rate · last seen around pick 6.9 on average (77,564 packs).

40 of 42 black cards · 16 of 17 black uncommon cards.

Taken at pick10.19,098 picks
Makes the deck18.0%9,098 picks with known usage
When played51.3%8,309.7 matchesBenched 55.0%
37,705.3 matches
When drawn51.5%3,747 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 49.2% · 1,525 instances
● Drawn later 53.2% · 2,222 instances

In hand 51.5% · 3,747 instances
Unseen in deck 51.8% · 5,020 instances
−0.3 percentage points when drawn

Compared with black cards

Win rate when drawn51.5%3,747 instances40 of 42
Opening hand49.2%1,525 instances37 of 42
Drawn later53.2%2,222 instances39 of 42
In the deck51.7%8,829 instances40 of 43
Without seeing it51.8%5,020 instances40 of 43
Improvement when drawn−0.3 pp3,747 instances / 5,020 instances35 of 42
When benched55.0%37,705.3 matches32 of 43
Makes the deck18.0%9,098 picks with known usage37 of 43
Pick (last seen)6.977,564 packs36 of 44
Taken at10.19,098 picks37 of 43

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

Draw Two UB56.0%800 instancesSacrifice WB49.7% ◌169 instances+1/+1 Counters BG46.8% ◌190 instancesFire Nation Aggro BR44.4% ◌243 instances

Each tick is this card’s all-decks rate (51.5% · 3,747 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.

Sold Out4,372 games with both in the deckDeadly Precision4,014 games with both in the deckCorrupt Court Official3,728 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 11% 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 0118 · Regular printingListings ↗
FinishFound inPrice
NonfoilPlay Booster · Collector Booster · jumpstart · prerelease-azula$0.23
FoilPlay Booster · Collector Booster$0.30

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 →

Nonfoil in a jumpstart · Modeled · About 1 in 66 packs (1.52%) · 30.7% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Nonfoil in a prerelease-azula · Modeled · About 1 in 7 packs (14.29%) · 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 BoosterUncommons96.4% per positionMain set uncommon
Play BoosterWildcard74.1%Main set uncommon
Play BoosterFoil card36.7%Main set uncommon
Collector BoosterFoil uncommons100% per positionMain 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
Yuu Fujiki, TLA 118 · Scryfall ↗
More like this
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Sources
Wizards · Collecting Avatar: The Last Airbender · Oct 28, 2025
Scryfall USD, snapshot Oct 25
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