Avatar Kyoshi, Earthbender
Legendary Creature — Human Avatar
During your turn, Avatar Kyoshi has hexproof.
At the beginning of combat on your turn, earthbend 8, then untap that land. (Target land you control becomes a 0/0 creature with haste that's still a land. Put eight +1/+1 counters on it. When it dies or is exiled, return it to the battlefield tapped.)
- CMC
- 8
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- Avatar: The Last Airbender Eternal
- Price
- $19.34
- EDHREC rank
- #5074
Avatar Kyoshi, Earthbender hits the board as a large trampling threat that also moves land cards from your graveyard back into play, generating real board presence and recovery in a single card slot. The catch is a mana cost that demands a dedicated ramp shell — but in the earthbending decks where Toph, Earthbending Master is already accelerating your game plan, that cost is consistently payable.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Toph, Earthbending Master
Toph, Earthbending Master is the natural home — she mills lands into the graveyard at a high rate, and Avatar Kyoshi, Earthbender converts exactly that graveyard fuel into tapped lands on the battlefield, making the two cards a tight engine loop.
Bumi, Unleashed
Bumi, Unleashed rewards having big, splashy permanents entering and attacking, and Avatar Kyoshi, Earthbender delivers on both fronts while restocking lands to keep the high-cost curve moving.
Toph, the First Metalbender
Toph, the First Metalbender cares about having a wide spread of permanent types and card types in play, and Avatar Kyoshi, Earthbender's landfall-adjacent land recursion helps fuel the triggers she wants while contributing a sizable body.
Jolrael, Voice of Zhalfir
Jolrael, Voice of Zhalfir generates tokens whenever you draw on an opponent's turn, and Avatar Kyoshi, Earthbender fills out the top of the curve with a threat big enough to protect the token swarm and close games once the board is wide.
Toph, Hardheaded Teacher
Toph, Hardheaded Teacher wants repeated sources of incremental value that also attack effectively, and Avatar Kyoshi, Earthbender's land recursion keeps mana flowing through the mid-to-late game while contributing a relevant combat body.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is the clear home for Avatar Kyoshi, Earthbender — the format's longer games give you time to hit the mana cost, and the land recursion scales well against the attrition and wrath cycles typical of multiplayer tables. In Oathbreaker the card is legal but the higher-pressure, lower-curve environment makes the cost harder to justify consistently. Legacy and Vintage legality is technically real, but neither format has any interest in a six-mana creature that recovers lands — those formats are decided before Avatar Kyoshi, Earthbender would ever resolve.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Budget Alternatives
Cheaper options that do most of the same work
Splendid Reclamation does much of the land-recovery work for under a dollar, returning all lands from your graveyard at once rather than incrementally, though you lose the attached creature body entirely. Titania, Protector of Argoth sits in a similar price range to Avatar Kyoshi, Earthbender and converts sacrificed lands into 5/3 tokens, but she incentivizes a sacrifice loop rather than straight recursion and pulls the deck in a different strategic direction.
Price Context
Current price
$19.34 mid tier
At $19.34, Avatar Kyoshi, Earthbender sits firmly in the mid tier — expensive enough to be a deliberate include but not the kind of card that defines a deck's budget ceiling. As a set-specific card tied to a high-profile licensed product, demand from theme-deck builders is real, and the price reflects that rather than raw competitive necessity.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.