Based Deck Diaries Day 1. Talking About Spirit Water Revival #mtg #magicthegathering #mtgcommander

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## Summary

The creator highlights Spirit Water Revival from the Avatar: The Last Airbender set as a strong Commander include. It's a three-mana blue sorcery that draws two cards, but carries Waterbending 6ΓÇöan alternate cost letting you tap creatures and artifacts to pay 6 generic mana. If paid, it instead draws seven cards and grants infinite hand size for the rest of the game. He recommends it for his Galazeth Prismari deck built around tapping artifacts to pay for spells, noting the Waterbending cost is trivially met by tapping any spare junk: Treasure tokens, Clues, Food, junk tokens, or equipment lying around. Deckbuilding principle: the card synergizes with any deck already generating disposable artifacts/tokens, since those provide free fuel for the alternate cost, making the seven-card draw and infinite hand size easy to unlock.

## Key Clips

- **[01:00]** Spirit Water Revival is an insane card from the new Avatar the Last Airbender set. It's a three mana blue sorcery that lets you draw two cards, but it has water bending six.
- **[01:13]** If you haven't seen water bending, it allows you to tap creatures and artifacts to pay for a cost. In this case, six colorless mana. And if you do, Spirit Water Revival lets you draw seven cards and have an infinite hand size for the rest of the game.
- **[01:28]** I have long played a Galazeth Prismari deck that's all about abusing artifacts to pay for spells. So this goes right in there and it's going to be absolutely busted.
- **[01:40]** This card effectively allows any random piece of junk that you have ΓÇö be it a junk token or a treasure token or a clue or a food or any equipment lying around ΓÇö to tap for that extra cost, and it'll be super easy to pay.

## Tags

**Archetypes/Strategy:** value-engine, spellslinger
**Format/Bracket:** Upgraded
**Card Categories:** draw, ramp
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Source video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiDfKRL1vKU

Summary

The creator highlights Spirit Water Revival from the Avatar: The Last Airbender set as a strong Commander include. It's a three-mana blue sorcery that draws two cards, but carries Waterbending 6ΓÇöan alternate cost letting you tap creatures and artifacts to pay 6 generic mana. If paid, it instead draws seven cards and grants infinite hand size for the rest of the game. He recommends it for his Galazeth Prismari deck built around tapping artifacts to pay for spells, noting the Waterbending cost is trivially met by tapping any spare junk: Treasure tokens, Clues, Food, junk tokens, or equipment lying around. Deckbuilding principle: the card synergizes with any deck already generating disposable artifacts/tokens, since those provide free fuel for the alternate cost, making the seven-card draw and infinite hand size easy to unlock.

Key Clips

[01:00] Spirit Water Revival is an insane card from the new Avatar the Last Airbender set. It's a three mana blue sorcery that lets you draw two cards, but it has water bending six.
[01:13] If you haven't seen water bending, it allows you to tap creatures and artifacts to pay for a cost. In this case, six colorless mana. And if you do, Spirit Water Revival lets you draw seven cards and have an infinite hand size for the rest of the game.
[01:28] I have long played a Galazeth Prismari deck that's all about abusing artifacts to pay for spells. So this goes right in there and it's going to be absolutely busted.
[01:40] This card effectively allows any random piece of junk that you have ΓÇö be it a junk token or a treasure token or a clue or a food or any equipment lying around ΓÇö to tap for that extra cost, and it'll be super easy to pay.