This Week in Magic: Friday, November 21

Posted on November 21, 2025

Avatar Has Been Fully Unleashed!

Avatar: the Last Airbender - Magic's latest expansion - is now available everywhere! Whether you want to play in paper or digitally, it's a great time to get out and pick up some sweet cards! This set rules on just about all fronts, whether you're a fan of the series or not, with great Limited play and some stellar cards poised to impact multiple formats. This set is red hot, so get in on it now!

Be sure to check with your local game store and get in on all the action today! Can't find what you're looking for locally? No problem! You can pick up all your Avatar: The Last Airbender needs right here on CoolStuffInc and have them mailed right to your door!

Free pet on MTGArea?! What a cool Easter Cabbage.

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— MTGNerdGirl (@mtgnerdgirl.bsky.social) November 18, 2025 at 5:01 PM

Additionally, if you're an MTG Arena player, here's a hot tip! If you find yourself playing on the Avatar board - something that will always show up when playing Avatar Limited - a cabbage cart will be toward the top of your screen, center-left. If you repeatedly click on it, it will whack out all the cabbages and break the stand! When you finish the game, you'll have a message in your inbox with a free cabbage pet for your client!

Monster Hunter Secret Lair Announced

Continuing the long line of special Universes Beyond collaborations being released via Secret Lair, we have yet another video game crossover release. This time it's for the beloved Capcom franchise Monster Hunter! Each drop boasts a number of Magic cards reskinned with beloved Monster Hunter iconography and characters. These come in both English and Japanese and even have special surge foil versions that come as one big bundle if you've got the money to spare. A special copy of Sol Ring will also be shipped with select bundles for those able to get in on the action.

You can find all of the details and cards in the official announcement here! These Secret Lairs go live on December 1st so mark your calendars and get ready for the hunt!

Arena Limited Championship Details Revealed

A few weeks back, Wizards of the Coast announced that there would be a major Limited Championship event every year! This would essentially be a Pro Tour level event with a focus solely on Limited play at the highest level. Now, earlier this week, MTG Arena released some details for what qualifier events will look like next year, relying on two separate best-of-one draft events. While no dates were provided, the info should give many players information to prepare themselves with going into 2026.

You can read the full announcement with all the details right here.

Decklist of the Week

Simic Aggro | TLA Standard | WinSano, 4th Place MTGO Standard Challenge

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With the recent round of Standard bans and the release of Avatar: the Last Airbender, players everywhere are eager to see what does well. Not only are they looking for that, but they're also looking for new innovations. Right from the word "go," we're quickly seeing copies of Badgermole Cub and Wan Shi Tong, Librarian all over multiple formats - not just Standard.

This fourth place list from a Magic Online Challenge earlier this week is a great example of this. It utilizes Badgermole Cub and mana dorks to spit out huge threats that take over the game at breakneck speed. Many players were high on the Simic Aggro deck even before the bans, and this shows the deck can have some real potential going forward. Will we be looking at a meta full of Bagermoles and Owls soon?!

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