
Azula, Ruthless Firebender
Legendary Creature — Human Noble
Firebending 1 (Whenever this creature attacks, add . This mana lasts until end of combat.)
Whenever Azula attacks, you may discard a card. Then you get an experience counter for each player who discarded a card this turn.
: Until end of turn, Azula gets +1/+1 for each experience counter you have and gains menace.
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Commander bracket
Derived from card traits, not a ruling — bracket rules turn on how a deck intends to use a card. Bracket rules
EDHREC
Combos
Not part of any combo on Commander Spellbook.
Commander recommendations
Top synergy 50
Played far more in this commander's decks than elsewhere.
- Syphon Mind
- Geier Reach Sanitarium
- Bandit's Talent
- Virus Beetle
- Waste Not
- Burglar Rat
- Elderfang Disciple
- Vicious Rumors
- Monument to Endurance
- Geth's Grimoire
- Tinybones, Bauble Burglar
- Dark Deal
- Hecteyes
- Hopeless Nightmare
- Nezumi Informant
- Cunning Lethemancer
- The Raven Man
- Entropic Battlecruiser
- Rotting Rats
- Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal
- Containment Construct
- Tinybones Joins Up
- Tinybones, Trinket Thief
- Asylum Visitor
- Archfiend of Ifnir
- Liliana of the Veil
- Tourach, Dread Cantor
- Swiftfoot Boots
- Bone Miser
- Necrogoyf
- Liliana's Caress
- Send in the Pest
- Court of Ambition
- Call to the Netherworld
- Big Game Hunter
- Megrim
- Smallpox
- Rogue's Passage
- Hostile Investigator
- Miasmic Mummy
- Creeping Dread
- Liliana, Waker of the Dead
- Sangromancer
- Ozai's Cruelty
- Liliana's Specter
- Shadowgrange Archfiend
- Epic Downfall
- Dark Withering
- Rankle, Master of Pranks
- Key to the City
Most included 50
Highest share of decks running them, distinctive or not.
- Swamp
- Sol Ring
- Syphon Mind
- Geier Reach Sanitarium
- Waste Not
- Burglar Rat
- Virus Beetle
- Bandit's Talent
- Swiftfoot Boots
- Dark Deal
- Arcane Signet
- Elderfang Disciple
- Geth's Grimoire
- Vicious Rumors
- Jet Medallion
- Tinybones, Bauble Burglar
- Feed the Swarm
- Monument to Endurance
- Hecteyes
- Nezumi Informant
- Dark Ritual
- Hopeless Nightmare
- The Raven Man
- Cunning Lethemancer
- Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal
- Entropic Battlecruiser
- Bojuka Bog
- Rotting Rats
- Rogue's Passage
- Cabal Coffers
- Lightning Greaves
- Phyrexian Arena
- Tinybones Joins Up
- Liliana of the Veil
- Tinybones, Trinket Thief
- Withering Torment
- Crypt Ghast
- Containment Construct
- Asylum Visitor
- Archfiend of Ifnir
- Reanimate
- Tourach, Dread Cantor
- Liliana's Caress
- Necrogoyf
- Sign in Blood
- Defile
- Night's Whisper
- Bone Miser
- Sangromancer
- Mind Stone
Format legality
Rulings
- 2025-10-02
"Firebending N" is a keyword that represents the ability "Whenever this creature attacks, add N
. Until end of combat, you don't lose this mana as steps end."
- 2025-10-02
All experience counters are identical, no matter how you got them. For example, the last ability will count experience counters that you got from the second ability, from another ability, from another copy of Azula, Ruthless Firebender, and so on.
- 2025-10-02
Any other mana you add during combat will still be lost as normal when moving between steps of combat.
- 2025-10-02
Firebending abilities aren't mana abilities. They use the stack and can be responded to.
- 2025-10-02
Mana from firebending abilities isn't lost until you leave combat and go to your second main phase. It can be used at any time during combat, even after combat damage has been dealt.
- 2025-10-02
Multiple instances of firebending on the same creature trigger separately, each granting you the appropriate amount of mana.
- 2025-10-02
The experience counter goes on you, the player, not on Azula. You will keep that counter even if Azula, Ruthless Firebender dies.