ATLA Deck Upgrades: Azula, Toph, Aang, Iroh, Zuko | Upping the Average | Magic the Gathering
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🗓️ 8 December 2025
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Aang: https://archidekt.com/decks/17821769/upping_the_average_avatar_aang
Iroh: https://archidekt.com/decks/17585780/upping_the_average_iroh_grand_lotus
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone, it's Joey, and this will be a slightly different episode than usual, so I hope it's okay with you if I give a small update before we get into it. |
| 0:09.0 | I've been working on bringing back the Upping the Average series, which is a fan favorite series that I do on YouTube to help upgrade Commander Decks. |
| 0:15.0 | I did something different with Upping the Average this time though, and when looking at the end result, we decided that, that you know what this might be fun to release not just as a YouTube video but also |
| 0:24.8 | here as a podcast episode too check out the YouTube video for the full effect I suppose |
| 0:29.6 | but I hope me upgrading all these decks is also fun for you to listen to I hope |
| 0:33.1 | you enjoy hey there it's Enjoy. |
| 0:43.3 | Hey there, it's Joey. Let's get EDH wrecked. That's right, it's upping the average, the series where we take a commander's average |
| 0:47.7 | decklist as aggregated by the data on EDH rec and make a couple of quick swaps to it |
| 0:51.9 | to help take it from a good start to a great one. |
| 0:54.4 | But today I'm giving this series a bit of a twist. |
| 0:57.3 | The relentless base of set releases has made this series a little bit difficult to keep up with on a per deck basis. |
| 1:03.0 | So I would like to try it on a per set basis. |
| 1:06.0 | Instead of just one deck, in this video we're looking at five. |
| 1:09.0 | We are taking the five most popular |
| 1:11.1 | commanders from Magic's most recent set, Avatar the Last Airbender, and making swaps to improve |
| 1:15.7 | those lists for your next game night. That means we're covering Fire Lord Azula with nearly |
| 1:20.3 | 11,000 decks, Toff the first metalbender with 10,000, Avatar Ang who's on his way to 6,000, |
| 1:26.4 | Iro Grand Lotus with 4,000 decks, and Fire Lord Zuko, also with 4,000, Avatar Ang who's on his way to 6,000, Iro Grand Lotus with 4,000 decks, and Firelord |
| 1:29.3 | Zucco, also with 4,000. |
| 1:31.3 | All deck lists will of course be linked down in the description below, and as a reminder, |
| 1:35.3 | our rule in this series is that in total, whenever making swaps to a deck, the swaps must either |
| 1:40.3 | keep the price of that deck cost neutral, or else help to lower the total price of that list. |
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