Standard Airbending
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Airbending has slipped from ~2.3% to 0.3% of the Standard metagame over the last 90 days.
Meta share, last 90 days
Slipped from ~2.3% to 0.3% · trend line is 3-week smoothed
Typical Standard Airbending maindeck cards
Maindeck adoption across 32 decklists in the last 90 days. Click a row to filter decklists.
| Card | Avg copies | % |
|---|---|---|
| Badgermole Cub | 4.0 | 100% |
| Hushwood Verge | 3.6 | 100% |
| Llanowar Elves | 4.0 | 100% |
| Temple Garden | 4.0 | 100% |
| Forest | 2.9 | 94% |
| Nature's Rhythm | 3.9 | 94% |
| Brightglass Gearhulk | 2.7 | 91% |
| Craterhoof Behemoth | 1.0 | 91% |
| Meltstrider's Resolve | 1.9 | 91% |
| Seam Rip | 2.6 | 91% |
| Gene Pollinator | 3.9 | 88% |
| Leyline Weaver | 3.6 | 88% |
| Ouroboroid | 2.3 | 88% |
| Starting Town | 3.9 | 84% |
| Breeding Pool | 3.9 | 72% |
| Hallowed Fountain | 2.2 | 69% |
| Floodfarm Verge | 2.0 | 66% |
| Quantum Riddler | 3.7 | 66% |
| Mockingbird | 2.4 | 63% |
| Botanical Sanctum | 2.1 | 56% |
| Soul-Guide Lantern | 1.0 | 56% |
| Nurturing Pixie | 1.0 | 31% |
| Plains | 1.7 | 31% |
| Sage of the Skies | 2.7 | 28% |
| Abandoned Air Temple | 3.0 | 25% |
| Keen-Eyed Curator | 1.4 | 25% |
| Multiversal Passage | 2.4 | 25% |
| Aang, Swift Savior | 2.5 | 19% |
| Shimmerwilds Growth | 1.3 | 13% |
| Appa, Steadfast Guardian | 3.0 | 9% |
| Goldvein Hydra | 1.0 | 9% |
| Insidious Fungus | 1.0 | 9% |
| Michelangelo's Technique | 2.7 | 9% |
| Pawpatch Recruit | 1.0 | 9% |
| Aang, at the Crossroads | 3.0 | 6% |
| Airbender Ascension | 3.0 | 6% |
| Bramble Familiar | 4.0 | 6% |
| Cavern of Souls | 1.0 | 6% |
| Doc Aurlock, Grizzled Genius | 4.0 | 6% |
| Erode | 1.0 | 6% |
Typical Standard Airbending sideboard
Built from sideboard adoption across 32 decklists in the last 90 days.
Full sideboard card play rate
Per-card sideboard adoption across 32 decklists in the last 90 days. Click a row to filter decklists.
| Card | Avg copies | % |
|---|---|---|
| Rest in Peace | 2.3 | 91% |
| Erode | 2.7 | 81% |
| Sage of the Skies | 2.8 | 75% |
| Surrak, Elusive Hunter | 1.5 | 66% |
| Detect Intrusion | 2.4 | 59% |
| Disdainful Stroke | 1.3 | 47% |
| Insidious Fungus | 1.0 | 47% |
| Keen-Eyed Curator | 1.4 | 47% |
| Leatherhead, Swamp Stalker | 1.5 | 34% |
| Soul-Guide Lantern | 1.0 | 28% |
| Meltstrider's Resolve | 1.0 | 22% |
| Seam Rip | 1.7 | 22% |
| Beza, the Bounding Spring | 1.4 | 16% |
| Get Lost | 1.8 | 16% |
| Kutzil's Flanker | 1.0 | 16% |
| Pawpatch Recruit | 2.3 | 13% |
| Wistfulness | 2.3 | 13% |
| Dusk Rose Reliquary | 1.0 | 9% |
| Elspeth, Storm Slayer | 1.0 | 9% |
| Pawpatch Formation | 1.7 | 9% |
| Shardmage's Rescue | 1.0 | 9% |
| Shimmerwilds Growth | 1.0 | 9% |
| Authority of the Consuls | 1.0 | 6% |
| Dawn's Truce | 2.0 | 6% |
| Focus Fire | 1.0 | 6% |
| Hallowed Fountain | 1.0 | 6% |
| Oko, Lorwyn Liege | 1.5 | 6% |
| Pyrrhic Strike | 1.0 | 6% |
| Spell Pierce | 1.0 | 6% |
| Spider-Sense | 2.0 | 6% |
| Yera and Oski, Weaver and Guide | 1.0 | 6% |
| Dragon Sniper | 3.0 | 3% |
| Emeritus of Ideation | 1.0 | 3% |
| Emeritus of Truce | 1.0 | 3% |
| Goldvein Hydra | 2.0 | 3% |
| Jennifer Walters | 1.0 | 3% |
| Leyline Weaver | 2.0 | 3% |
| Nature's Rhythm | 2.0 | 3% |
| Ouroboroid | 1.0 | 3% |
| Sheltered by Ghosts | 1.0 | 3% |
Airbending Standard FAQ
Is Airbending good in Standard right now?
Airbending is 0.3% of Standard decklists in the last two weeks. Best recent finish: 21st (3-3) at Standard Challenge 32 on Jul 24, 2026.
What are the key cards in Standard Airbending?
Nearly every list runs Badgermole Cub, Hushwood Verge, and Llanowar Elves (99%+ of Standard Airbending decklists in the last 90 days).
What's a typical Standard Airbending sideboard?
The most common Standard Airbending sideboard cards over the last 90 days: Rest in Peace (91% of lists), Erode (81% of lists), Sage of the Skies (75% of lists), and Surrak, Elusive Hunter (66% of lists).
What does Uniqueness mean?
Uniqueness rates each list from band 1 (Stock) through band 10 (Unique). Higher means a list is more unusual vs recent peers of this strategy.
How many Standard Airbending decklists are there?
Decklist Data tracks 325 Standard Airbending decklists all-time (2 in the last 14 days) from Magic: The Gathering Online (MTGO) Challenges and Leagues. New results are indexed automatically — latest Airbending result Jul 24, 2026.