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Badgermole Cub

Creature — Badger Mole

When this creature enters, earthbend 1. (Target land you control becomes a 0/0 creature with haste that's still a land. Put a +1/+1 counter on it. When it dies or is exiled, return it to the battlefield tapped.)
Whenever you tap a creature for mana, add an additional {G}.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{1}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
mythic
Set
Avatar: The Last Airbender
Price
$67.41
EDHREC rank
#1715
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Badgermole Cub card art
Badgermole Cub hits the board and immediately starts converting lands into creatures or vice versa, generating the kind of mana and board presence that warps a game before opponents can stabilize. Ashaya, Soul of the Wild synergizes deeply with its land-creature blurring, and Bumi, Unleashed runs it as a core piece of the engine — the Cub's effect is strong enough that the cost justifies itself in almost any green goodstuff shell.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Bumi, Unleashed

Bumi, Unleashed

64.5% of decks · synergy 0.58

Bumi, Unleashed is the natural home — Badgermole Cub slots directly into the engine Bumi wants to assemble, turning land interaction into outsized tempo advantages that the deck converts into wins.

02
Thrasios, Triton HeroYoshimaru, Ever Faithful

Thrasios, Triton Hero // Yoshimaru, Ever Faithful

62.6% of decks · synergy 0.57

Thrasios, Triton Hero // Yoshimaru, Ever Faithful pairs with Badgermole Cub because Thrasios's land-fetching and card advantage loop feeds exactly the kind of mana-positive setup the Cub enables.

03
Toph, Earthbending Master

Toph, Earthbending Master

64.4% of decks · synergy 0.56

Toph, Earthbending Master leans on earthbending and land manipulation as a theme, making Badgermole Cub a flavorful and functional piece that accelerates Toph's strategy of turning the battlefield into a resource.

04
Tevesh Szat, Doom of FoolsThrasios, Triton Hero

Tevesh Szat, Doom of Fools // Thrasios, Triton Hero

48.1% of decks · synergy 0.45

Tevesh Szat, Doom of Fools // Thrasios, Triton Hero reaches for Badgermole Cub as part of the Thrasios-driven mana engine, where converting land value into card advantage gives the combo package the fuel it needs.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Badgermole Cub does its best work — the 100-card singleton format gives it enough redundant payoffs and land-synergy commanders to make the card genuinely impactful rather than a novelty. In competitive EDH especially, the effect scales with the power of the table, rewarding shells that already want to blur the line between lands and creatures. Badgermole Cub is legal across Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Standard, and Vintage, but none of those formats have the density of land-synergy support needed to make it worth a slot over more efficient options. Unless a dedicated combo shell emerges in a 60-card format, this is a Commander card through and through.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

Badgermole Cub sits in a narrow design space, so true substitutes are sparse — Quirion Ranger and Scryb Ranger offer cheaper ways to bounce lands for mana tricks, though neither replicates the land-creature conversion angle. If the goal is raw mana acceleration in the same shells, cards like Selvala, Heart of the Wilds or even Utopia Sprawl cover part of the function at a fraction of the price, though you lose the specific synergy that makes the Cub irreplaceable in Bumi and Toph lists.

Price Context

Current price

$67.41 premium tier

At $67.41, Badgermole Cub sits firmly in premium territory — a price driven by high demand from multiple popular commander archetypes rather than supply scarcity alone. That demand isn't going anywhere as long as Bumi, Unleashed and Toph lists remain popular, so the price reflects genuine play value rather than speculation.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.