Abandon Attachments – Avatar
Date Reviewed: November 4, 2025
Ratings:
Constructed: 3.75
Casual: 4.00
Limited: 4.00
Multiplayer: 3.67
Commander [EDH]: 3.83
Ratings are based on a 1 to 5 scale. 1 is bad. 3 is average. 5 is great.
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As we discussed a while ago, Lessons are making a welcome return in Avatar: The Last Airbender. It’s also notable to me that this particular one has a hybrid mana cost, which seems to be a feature of Lorwyn Eclipsed, and while I have no idea whether that’s going to have any mechanical relevance, it does make it more broadly usable and appealing. It’s a nice connection to the fact that The Last Airbender‘s lessons are often for Aang and his friends, but are also often useful for viewers too. (I’m not sure that was intentional, but let’s go with it.)
Abandon Attachments obviously plays well with any of the Strixhaven cards that use the learn mechanic (First Day of Class, etc) and with anything that looks for Lessons in your graveyard. But beyond that, it’s just a solid card all around. There are decks that want to play pure card-drawing spells, and blue and red decks often like to discard and count things in their graveyard too. Watching Andrea Mengucci’s Pauper videos has opened my eyes on just how many decks can use such spells – that format’s red aggro decks often use spells that only draw cards. Frankly, I’d play it over a card like Reckless Impulse just because of the reduced bookkeeping!
Constructed: 3.5
Casual: 4
Limited: 4
Multiplayer: 4
Commander [EDH]: 4
Given that Avatar takes a couple of seeming cues from Tibetan spirituality in its construction, this is a fitting enough spell for the set, given that the idea of abandoning all earthly bonds is meant to bring one closer to enlightenment. And this certainly seems to tap into that, letting you let go of earthly attachments (cards) to benefit from knowledge (more cards). It’s an efficient version of an effect both red and blue get with some reliability, and while blue usually discards after the draw, it actually doesn’t get this efficiency in a one-shot spell that often. This is apt to be a decent workhorse card, especially in the current Standard, and being a Lesson doesn’t hurt for all sorts of synergies we have in the set.
Constructed: 3.75
Casual: 4
Limited: 4
Multiplayer: 3
Commander [EDH]: 3.5 (more versions of this effect are nice, though color identity can be a bit of a thorn in this card’s side)
Thijs
As a Pauper enthusiast, I’m always looking for new cards. Good options to gain an advantage over my opponent. In recent sets there have been quite a few good additions, such as Cryogen Relic. In this set, this card caught my eye.
In red decks, card draw is always a thing. With cards like Reckless Impulse and Wrenn’s Resolve, there are opportunities, but they exile the cards, they don’t let you draw them. Cards like Faithless Looting lets you draw cards, but then you have to discard just as many cards. Abandon Attachments tries to find an in-between, and I like it. First of all, it’s a Lesson, so you can bring it in from outside the game. Secondly, you discard one card and then you draw two!
In combination with for example the Mayhem tactic from Spider-Man, this could be quite an interesting possibility!
Constructed: 4
Casual: 4
Limited: 4
Multiplayer: 4
Commander [EDH]: 4
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