Ba Sing Se
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 ยท Avatar: The Last Airbender (TLA)
Legalities
- Standard
- Legal
- Pioneer
- Legal
- Modern
- Legal
- Legacy
- Legal
- Vintage
- Legal
- Duel Commander
- Legal
- Pauper
- Not Legal
Printings
Rulings
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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"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."
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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
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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.
Archetypes that play this card
Duel Commander
- Azusa, Lost but Seeking 100.0% of lists
- Dyadrine, Synthesis Amalgam 100.0% of lists
- Toph, Greatest Earthbender 100.0% of lists
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- Tifa Lockhart 57.1% of lists
- Aerid Konstrari 40.0% of lists
- Brigid, Clachan's Heart 40.0% of lists
Legacy
- Cradle Control 80.0% of lists
- Jund 75.0% of lists
Modern
- Zabaz, the Glimmerwasp 66.7% of lists
- Eldrazi 12.0% of lists
- Other 1.6% of lists
Pioneer
- Nykthos Ramp 11.6% of lists
- Other 4.9% of lists
Standard
- Golgari Midrange 100.0% of lists
- Mono-Green Landfall 100.0% of lists
- Selesnya Ouroboroid 57.1% of lists
Show 1 more Standard archetypes
- Other 17.4% of lists