This holiday season, Magic: The Gathering is bringing a balance of warm nostalgia and strategic, elemental gameplay. The Avatar: The Last Airbender x Magic: The Gathering crossover features more than Aang mastering the elements, heart, and adventure. With a new spin on the art style, the cards illustrate cartoony while delivering combo abilities for many matches to come. Now, it is time to strategically jump-start shopping for those gaming fans in your life. Here is our Avatar: The Last Airbender x Magic: The Gathering holiday gift guide!

The Perfect Elemental Present For You (And Your Loved Ones!)

Based on the popular Nickelodeon animated series, Avatar: The Last Airbender is a fun new set that brings the iconic world of bending the elements to the gaming table. The set includes powerful bending masters, adorable hybrid animals, and allies that will stick by your side till the end. Cards range in rarity, and products range from beginner tier to master Magic player.

Magic has an incredible card image gallery that makes for a great resource to get a feel for the cards you can add to your wish list and where to find them. Furthermore, for a full list of everything Magic x Avatar: The Last Airbender, check out the official Magic Amazon store.

Beginner Box

Magic: The Gathering can come across as a big, intimidating game to get into. But with a friend at your side, this guided battle can make the plunge easier. Choose your champion as Aang and Zuko fight through the essential elemental lessons.

“Play your first Magic game in a guided battle of Aang vs Zuko to learn essential gameplay, then choose a side and balance or conquer the four nations of Avatar: The Last Airbender!”

• A Guided Experience: Start by playing a tutorial game with two 20-card decks, each with a step-by-step guide booklet that will walk you through your first game.
• The two decks provided half-decks, turn into a full 40-card Avatar: The Last Airbender-themed deck; mix and match to try different combinations!
• This Beginner Box includes everything you and a friend need to play, including 2 Playboards that will show you where to place your cards, 2 Spindowns to track your life totals, and 1 Rules Reference booklet to answer any questions you have along the way.
• Contents: Contains 2 packets of 100 cards, including two 20-card tutorial decks (Aang and Zuko) and eight 20-card half-decks (Firebending, Earthbending, Waterbending, Allies, Big Creatures, Counters, Spells, Attacking)
• Includes: 2 Playboards, 2 Spindown Life Counters, 2 Learn-to-Play Guides, 5 double-sided tokens, 1 Rules Reference booklet

Beginner Box: $34.99 on Amazon, TCG Player, or your local game store!

Play Booster Box | 30 Packs 

You can never go wrong with a boost pack to add weight to your stocking. Booster packs make for the best additions to any gift. Whether it’s one or a handful, you’ll earn some smiles! After all, who can’t resist the thrill of tearing open a blind pack of cards to see what’s inside? Especially when there’s a guaranteed foil in every pack.

“Join the fray with powerful bending masters, hybrid animals, and lovable allies wielding blades, boomerangs, and the occasional cabbage!”

For any single Booster Pack, check your local game store!
Play Booster Display: $144.97 on TCG Player

Collector Booster | 1 Pack of 15 Cards 

Collector Boosters offer a wonderful opportunity to enhance your collection with unique and exclusive cards. Each pack is filled with a variety of foils, special card treatments, and other exciting features. These boosters are unique in that they can include cards with specific foil designs and even the chance to find an ultra-rare headliner card.

Collector Booster: $49.45 on Amazon

Scene Box 1 – The Black Sun Invasion

Team Avatar leads the invasion of the Fire Nation during the solar eclipse. Are they walking into a deadly trap?

• 6 Borderless Cards that Create a Scene — Enhance your deck or collection by combining 6 Traditional Foil Borderless Scene cards to unveil a captivating narrative.
• Each Scene Card is a playable Magic card featuring game text, but this set also includes 6 Art-Only Cards, letting you enjoy the artwork in its full beauty on the provided display easel.
• Each Scene Box also comes with 3 Play Boosters; the best way to discover what Magic has to offer, they’re perfect for building decks, playing games with friends, and are tons of fun to open
• Contents: 6 Traditional Foil Borderless Scene Cards, 6 Art-Only Scene Cards, 3 Play Boosters, and a paper display easel

Scene Box: The Black Sun Invasion $41.99 on Amazon.

About Magic: The Gathering 

Magic: The Gathering is a collectible and competitive trading card game that debuted in 1993, created by Wizards of the Coast. It is set in a richly developed fantasy world featuring powerful wizards known as Planeswalkers. These Planeswalkers engage in battles using spells, creatures, and artifacts, all represented by cards. Players begin with a deck of cards, often focused on a particular theme or strategy. The goal is to reduce their opponent’s life total from 20 to 0 or meet other win conditions outlined by the rules or card effects.

The game is famous for its intricate mechanics and strategic layers. Players draw from five different colors of mana (magic energy) – white, blue, black, red, and green – each symbolizing various types of magic and gameplay styles. This color system greatly impacts deck-building strategies, allowing various tactics and unique gameplay experiences.

Thank you to Wizards of the Coast for providing a copy for this gift guide.