---
name: "Averna, the Chaos Bloom"
mana_cost: "{G}{U}{R}"
cmc: 3
type_line: "Legendary Creature — Elemental Shaman"
colors: []
color_identity: ["G", "R", "U"]
keywords: []
set: "PRM"
set_name: "Magic Online Promos"
collector_number: "86330"
rarity: "rare"
artist: "Lucas Graciano"
oracle_id: "23695bc2-86d3-4d78-b374-9e83c4cc9cc4"
canonical_url: "https://avascry.com/printing/averna-the-chaos-bloom-prm"
legalities:
  commander: "legal"
  standard: "not_legal"
  modern: "not_legal"
  pioneer: "not_legal"
  legacy: "legal"
  vintage: "legal"
  pauper: "not_legal"
  penny: "not_legal"
---

# Averna, the Chaos Bloom
- **Mana Cost:** `{G}{U}{R}` (CMC: 3)
- **Type:** Legendary Creature — Elemental Shaman

## Oracle Text
As you cascade, you may put a land card from among the exiled cards onto the battlefield tapped. (Do this after the last card is exiled but before deciding whether to cast a nonland card.)

## Top 4096-Dim Neural Synergies
1. [Imoti, Celebrant of Bounty](/printing/imoti-celebrant-of-bounty-cmr.md) — Legendary Creature — Snake Druid
2. [Apex Devastator](/printing/apex-devastator-cmr.md) — Creature — Chimera Hydra
3. [Throes of Chaos](/printing/throes-of-chaos-soc.md) — Sorcery
4. [Sundering Archaic](/printing/sundering-archaic-sos.md) — Creature — Avatar
5. [Dark Apostle](/printing/dark-apostle-40k.md) — Creature — Astartes Warlock
6. [Maelstrom Wanderer](/printing/maelstrom-wanderer-ecc.md) — Legendary Creature — Elemental

## Printing Details
- **Set:** Magic Online Promos (PRM) #86330
- **Rarity:** Rare
- **Artist:** Lucas Graciano
- **Total Printings:** 4 across all historical editions

## Format Legalities
Commander: `legal` | Standard: `not_legal` | Modern: `not_legal` | Pioneer: `not_legal` | Legacy: `legal` | Vintage: `legal` | Pauper: `not_legal` | Penny: `not_legal`

## Official Rulings
- *(2020-11-10)* If you don't cast the nonland card you reveal, or if you don't reveal any nonland cards with lesser mana value, you can still put a land card onto the battlefield before you finish cascading.
- *(2020-11-10)* Averna's ability isn't the same as playing a land. You may do this even if you've already played a land during your turn and even if it isn't your turn at all.
- *(2021-06-18)* If you cast a card "without paying its mana cost," you can't choose to cast it for any alternative costs. You can, however, pay additional costs. If the card has any mandatory additional costs, you must pay those to cast the card.
- *(2021-06-18)* Due to a 2021 rules change to cascade, not only do you stop exiling cards if you exile a nonland card with lesser mana value than the spell with cascade, but the resulting spell you cast must also have lesser mana value. Previously, in cases where a card's mana value differed from the resulting spell, such as with some modal double-faced cards or cards with an Adventure, you could cast a spell with a higher mana value than the exiled card.
- *(2021-06-18)* Cascade triggers when you cast the spell, meaning that it resolves before that spell. If you end up casting the exiled card, it will go on the stack above the spell with cascade.
- *(2021-06-18)* A spell's mana value is determined only by its mana cost. Ignore any alternative costs, additional costs, cost increases, or cost reductions.