First printed in Avatar: The Last Airbender (2025)
Land
This land enters tapped unless you control a basic land.
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, : Earthbend 2. Activate only as a sorcery. (Target land you control becomes a 0/0 creature with haste that's still a land. Put two +1/+1 counters on it. When it dies or is exiled, return it to the battlefield tapped.)
- Illustrated by
- Andreas Rocha
- Watermark
- Earthkingdom
Legality
- Legal in
- Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Future Standard, Historic, Timeless, Alchemy, Gladiator, Commander, Duel Commander, Tiny Leaders, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Standard Brawl, Competitive Brawl
- Not legal in
- Pauper, Penny Dreadful, Premodern, Old School 93/94, Pauper Commander, PreDH
Rulings (7)
- If a land was animated by earthbend and would go to any zone other than the graveyard or exile, it will not be returned to the battlefield by the delayed triggered ability created by earthbend.
- You may target a land that is already a creature, perhaps because of a previous earthbend ability. The land will get the +1/+1 counters, gain haste, and have its base power and toughness set to 0/0.
- Earthbend doesn't give the land you control a color. As most lands are colorless, in most cases the resulting land creature will also be colorless.
- The land will retain any other types, subtypes, or supertypes it previously had. It will also retain any mana abilities it had as a result of those subtypes. For example, a Forest that's turned into a creature this way can still be tapped for .
- If one of these lands enters at the same time as any number of basic lands, those other lands are not counted when determining if this land enters tapped or untapped.
- If the targeted land becomes an illegal target before the spell or ability that includes earthbend resolves, earthbend does nothing. If the spell or ability didn't have other targets, it won't resolve.
- "Earthbend N" means "Target land you control becomes a 0/0 land creature with haste in addition to its other types. Put N +1/+1 counters on it. When it dies or is exiled, return it to the battlefield tapped under your control."
Prices
MTGO price: 1.77 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 1 Nov 2026).
Combos
23 combos, the most popular first:
- Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers…: Ashnod's Altar + Ba Sing Se + Lotus Cobra + Spelunking
- Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers…: Ashnod's Altar + Ba Sing Se + Spelunking + Tireless Provisioner
- Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers…: Amulet of Vigor + Ashnod's Altar + Ba Sing Se + Lotus Cobra
- Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers…: Ashnod's Altar + Ba Sing Se + Horizon Explorer + Lotus Cobra
- Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers…: Amulet of Vigor + Ashnod's Altar + Ba Sing Se + Tireless Provisioner
- Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers…: Ashnod's Altar + Ba Sing Se + Horizon Explorer + Tireless Provisioner
- Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers…: Ashnod's Altar + Ba Sing Se + Lotus Cobra + Tiller Engine
- Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers…: Ashnod's Altar + Ba Sing Se + Tiller Engine + Tireless Provisioner
- Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers…: Ashnod's Altar + Ba Sing Se + Nissa, Resurgent Animist + Spelunking
- Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers…: Amulet of Vigor + Ashnod's Altar + Ba Sing Se + Nissa, Resurgent Animist
