Avatar: The Last Airbender (TLA) Limited Primer — Green

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Avatar: The Last Airbender will hold its prerelease events on November 14, 2025. Want to learn more about single-card ratings and recommendations in Limited? Then check out this TLA Limited primer series!

• For the mechanics, see this article: Avatar: The Last Airbender Mechanics Breakdown

Rating Scale

5.0: Must-take, unconditionally; gives you a near-winning advantage
4.5: Must-take if you’re in the right colors; gives you a huge advantage
4.0: Worth a first pick, with excellent synergy with the color pair’s theme; can be the deciding card for splashing, switching colors, or moving into a color pair
3.5: The best uncommons and commons in the set and other cards of sufficient strength, with good synergy with the color pair’s theme; can be the key card for moving into a color pair
3.0: Important cards for a color pair’s theme and other above-average cards; you’ll want them in your final deck
2.5: Average, usually a decent curve filler
2.0-1.0: Below average; you generally prefer not to play them, but they can be filler when necessary (not too many)
0.5-0.0: Unplayable; basically never play them, as they will only help you lose

Ratings

Score: 3.5
Comment: In a green-white deck it can easily be reduced to one mana, and it’s two creatures hitting one, so even if the creatures are on the small side it doesn’t matter; strength in numbers!

Score: 3.0
Comment: A hard-to-remove Aura whose pressure on the board is frightening, and it keeps growing with every trigger! But you still need to be careful using it, as late in the game it can quite possibly mill you out.

Score: 3.0
Comment: Counting it up, it’s like a 6/6 body for five mana. The base has four power, which fits the red-green theme, and trample fits with Earthbend; giving land creatures trample has great strategic value.

Score: 4.0
Comment: A great-bodied early ramp card that encourages you to spread out the board with Earthbend for greater benefit.

Score: 3.5
Comment: It triggers every time it attacks, which is very strong! Whether you want to go wide or stack up bodies, it’s flexible to use, and a 4/4 for four mana isn’t a bad body either.

Score: 3.0
Comment: A card that needs some Lesson support; you’d want it to do at least two modes on entering (especially the first and third). Red has three removal spells with the Lesson type, and I think this card will perform very well in red-green.

Score: 3.0
Comment: You can play green-based multicolor again! One card can fix two colors, which is very important in multicolor decks. It also has the chance to eat a land creature targeted by the opponent at instant speed to reduce your losses.

Score: 4.0
Comment: Only six of this set’s non-Human creatures are single-typed, so it’s basically a guaranteed +2/+2; pay attention to the ratio of creature types when building and you can gain a big board advantage. Also note that Earthbend doesn’t give land creatures a creature type, so they won’t receive the bonus.

Score: 4.0
Comment: Another creature with a monstrous body; four mana for 6/6 total stats with a positive ability. Among the common and uncommon creatures there are plenty of quality creatures with four or more power, and it may even trigger the ramp ability the turn it enters.

Score: 3.5
Comment: It comes in as a one-for-one that doesn’t lose any body, and with green’s large number of Earthbend effects, gaining two or three life each turn is no problem.

Score: 3.0
Comment: It enlarges your board’s bodies while clearing the opponent’s board, which couldn’t be more ideal for green.

Score: 4.0
Comment: It makes a 2/2 on entering and then finds a land, so you only need to play three more lands to complete the quest, and with Cycle of Renewal you can even complete the quest in one turn. The effect after completing the quest provides continuous body growth, raising the board until the opponent starts doubting life.

Score: 2.5
Comment: Cast on time it’s a four-mana 4/4 vanilla creature that enters tapped, and cast for five mana it’s a 4/4 with haste, quite flexible to use.

Score: 3.0
Comment: A super mana sink; if you can pile on a 5/5 body every turn, you’ll quickly punch through the board. Producing five colors isn’t hard in this set: besides thirteen multicolor lands, green has plenty of ramp spells to get to five colors, so don’t be scared by the five color requirements.

Score: 2.0
Comment: From five mana on you’ll want to start adding pressure to the board, and continuing to ramp costs too much tempo, not to mention you can only get the worst two of the four lands.

Score: 3.0
Comment: The counters go on itself, so it’s actually a 5/5 body. The second ability is super strong! No creature should win a duel against these body monsters in green; it’s just a pity there aren’t many menace creatures to pair with it.

Score: 3.0
Comment: The cost of its body growth isn’t high, and it can easily break a stalemate where creatures stare at each other doing nothing.

Score: 3.0
Comment: Not only is the body not bad, it’s itself a mana dork, and it spares you the trouble of color screw! Chromatic Lantern has already cried itself to sleep in the bathroom (and so has Grizzly Bears)

Score: 3.5
Comment: You can think of it as making every Ally creature that enters afterward get an extra +1/+1; this set has many strong Ally creatures, making it a very powerful two-drop for the curve.

Score: 3.5
Comment: Very strong in green-white, which excels at going wide, and blue-green, which has flyers that can get through, but the other green color pairs probably won’t use it much.

Score: 1.5
Comment: Shrines are all uncommons, so triggering the ability repeatedly isn’t easy, and finding only one land for four mana is a bit weak.

Score: 3.0
Comment: Earthbend creatures can all be treated as one-for-one, so you needn’t worry about being unable to place the two counters from chapter II; chapter III also draws the card back so you don’t lose resources. Be careful not to let chapter II fire on nothing, or the strength drops a lot.

Score: 5.0
Comment: It draws a bunch of cards on entering, makes a big guy next turn, and the turn after gives the big guy trample and turns it into damage. One card does everything, a perfect-score god card.

Score: 3.0
Comment: A sideboard-style answer that can be put in the main deck isn’t too bad, and it also works with Lessons.

Score: 3.0
Comment: My favorite common in this set; it meets what many green color pairs need: it places counters (black-green), becomes four power (red-green), and mills (blue-green Lesson), so it can be used in any theme.

Score: 2.0
Comment: A middling combat trick; the reset part can pair with land creatures.

Score: 3.0
Comment: The meme image is hilarious, and the strength didn’t fall behind, either; entering green’s power window a turn earlier can steal the tempo.

Score: 2.5
Comment: A great curve filler; late in the game the opponent may even need to spend removal on it.

Score: 3.0
Comment: Having two Forests means it isn’t a loss, and if your pool has many of them you can even consider going mono-green.

Score: 3.0
Comment: An instant-speed fight is always welcome, a rare good removal spell.

Score: 2.5
Comment: Another body monster, useful both early and late, only a pity that it has reach rather than trample, which is a bit weak for finishing late in the game.

Score: 2.5
Comment: It looks very deep in the mid to late game, and casting it in the first three turns is a bit of a loss, in which case just treat it as stacking a Lesson in the graveyard.

Score: 3.0
Comment: It ramps and fixes colors while speeding up your arrival at the mid to late game, and it also has the Lesson type; Rampant Growth has cried itself to sleep in the bathroom.

Score: 2.5
Comment: In expected value you gain a card every two openings, but it has essentially no trading ability; consider it in slow, resource-focused decks.

Score: 3.5
Comment: Another body monster; the body it enters with is a 2/2 + 2/3, and it grows with each Earthbend resolution.

Score: 3.0
Comment: A staged four-mana draw two, with the right type, too.

Score: 2.5
Comment: It can come down very early, and in the mid to late game becomes a mainstay of the battlefield.

Score: 3.0
Comment: A good creature that can support Waterbend; although there aren’t many cards in this set that make Food, it doesn’t affect how good it is. A Food token sacrificed in other ways can also trigger the ability, so you don’t have to spend two mana to activate it. It can also serve as an air wall, which is pretty fun.

Score: 2.5
Comment: Good trading ability; it can stop most aerial threats, and the lifegain ability is easy to trigger.

Conclusion

Recent sets have repeatedly proven that fancy special mechanics can’t beat the absolute crushing power of high power and toughness, not to mention green’s mechanics don’t seem to lose out either. Let’s crush Limited together with brute-force bodies!