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War Balloon TLA 0159 · uncommon

War Balloon · {2}{R} · Artifact — Vehicle · Flying {1}: Put a fire counter on this Vehicle. As long as this Vehicle has three or more fire counters on it, it's an artifact creature. Crew 3 (Tap any number of creatures you control with total power 3 or more: This Vehicle becomes an artifact creature until end of turn.) · Power / toughness: 4/3

War Balloon · {2}{R} · Artifact — Vehicle · Flying {1}: Put a fire counter on this Vehicle. As long as this Vehicle has three or more fire counters on it, it's an artifact creature. Crew 3 (Tap any number of creatures you control with total power 3 or more: This Vehicle becomes an artifact creature until end of turn.) · Power / toughness: 4/3

Price
from $0.121 printing
Win rate
54.0% GIH 11,194 instances · Premier Draft
Nov 18–Dec 31, 2025 · 17Lands

Game-in-hand win rate, all deck colors. 6,047 wins in 11,194 card-in-hand instances.

10,698 distinct games · 4,172 distinct drafts · games recorded Nov 18–Dec 31, 2025.

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

Draft data

54.0%when drawn (GIH)

−2.0 pp vs 56.0% average · 11,194 instances

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

#197 of 289 nonland cards by win rate · last seen around pick 5.7 on average (68,581 packs).

26 of 46 red cards · 10 of 17 red uncommon cards.

Taken at pick8.09,938 picks
Makes the deck48.3%9,938 picks with known usage
When played54.2%25,773.1 matchesBenched 55.7%
25,560.9 matches
When drawn54.0%11,194 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 53.3% · 4,617 instances
● Drawn later 54.6% · 6,577 instances

In hand 54.0% · 11,194 instances
Unseen in deck 54.7% · 15,934 instances
−0.7 percentage points when drawn

Compared with red cards

Win rate when drawn54.0%11,194 instances26 of 46
Opening hand53.3%4,617 instances27 of 44
Drawn later54.6%6,577 instances24 of 45
In the deck54.4%27,066 instances29 of 49
Without seeing it54.7%15,934 instances31 of 47
Improvement when drawn−0.7 pp11,194 instances / 15,934 instances28 of 46
When benched55.7%25,560.9 matches21 of 53
Makes the deck48.3%9,938 picks with known usage30 of 51
Pick (last seen)5.768,581 packs33 of 53
Taken at8.09,938 picks31 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 RW55.1%1,958 instancesFire Nation Aggro BR54.9%1,452 instancesCombat Lessons UR53.8%1,726 instancesEarth Rumble Ramp RG53.2%754 instances

Each tick is this card’s all-decks rate (54.0% · 11,194 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 Lesson13,850 games with both in the deckLightning Strike13,824 games with both in the deckYuyan Archers12,528 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 32% 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 0159 · Regular printingListings ↗
FinishFound inPrice
NonfoilPlay Booster · Collector Booster · jumpstart · prerelease-zuko$0.12
FoilPlay Booster · Collector Booster$0.21

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 22 packs (4.55%) · 67.3% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Nonfoil in a prerelease-zuko · 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
Matteo Bassini, TLA 159 · Scryfall ↗
More like this
Regular printing printings →
Sources
Wizards · Collecting Avatar: The Last Airbender · Oct 28, 2025
Scryfall USD, snapshot Oct 25
Comprehensive Rules ↗