Bumi, King of Three Trials
Legendary Creature — Human Noble Ally
When Bumi enters, choose up to X, where X is the number of Lesson cards in your graveyard —
• Put three +1/+1 counters on Bumi.
• Target player scries 3.
• Earthbend 3. (Target land you control becomes a 0/0 creature with haste that's still a land. Put three +1/+1 counters on it. When it dies or is exiled, return it to the battlefield tapped.)
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Avatar: The Last Airbender
- Price
- $0.21
- EDHREC rank
- #10744
Bumi, King of Three Trials hits the board as a 4/4 with trample and immediately threatens to flip into Bumi, Unleashed if you can deal its combat damage three times — that payoff is enormous, but three successful attacks is a real ask in a format full of blockers and removal. Run it as a commander or as a threat in Avatar-synergy lists; don't expect it to transform every game.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Bumi, Unleashed
Bumi, Unleashed is the card's literal other half — Bumi, King of Three Trials is the front face, so this inclusion rate represents every player running the card as their commander and building around flipping it as fast as possible.
Iroh, Grand Lotus
Iroh, Grand Lotus rewards playing legendary creatures and creatures with lore counters, both of which Bumi, King of Three Trials fits neatly into — the trial mechanic generates counters that feed Iroh's value engine while Bumi threatens its own transformation payoff on the side.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Bumi, King of Three Trials is legal everywhere from Standard to Legacy, but it's a Commander card through and through — the transformation payoff requires repeated combat damage, which is a multi-turn investment that competitive non-rotating formats won't tolerate. In Standard and Pioneer it's too slow against the format's linear aggro and combo decks; the three-trial clause will almost never resolve before the game is over. Commander is where the card earns its slot: politics, wide boards, and longer games give Bumi, King of Three Trials the time it needs, and the flip into an Avatar legendary is a genuine late-game threat your opponents have to respect.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.21 bulk tier
At $0.21, Bumi, King of Three Trials is bulk — grab a copy for essentially nothing. Bulk mythics and rares from popular sets tend to stay cheap unless a combo or format shift finds them, and nothing about this card's design suggests that's coming.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Bumi, Unleashed
- Iroh, Grand Lotus
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.