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Earth Village Ruffians

Creature — Human Soldier Rogue

When this creature dies, earthbend 2. (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.)

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{B/G}
Color identity
BG
Rarity
common
Set
Avatar: The Last Airbender
Price
$0.07
EDHREC rank
#20651
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Earth Village Ruffians card art
Earth Village Ruffians enters as a 4/4 for four mana and immediately makes every land you control into a creature — which, with Ashaya, Soul of the Wild on board, means your lands are already creatures and the Ruffians' power scales to match your land count. The cost is real: four mana for a vanilla-stat body that does nothing without support is a liability in any deck that isn't specifically built around land-as-creature synergies.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard legal
vintage legal
pauper legal
oathbreaker legal

Earth Village Ruffians is a Commander card — the 100-card singleton format is the only place where the density of land-creature synergies justifies a four-mana do-nothing-alone body. In Modern and Pioneer it competes with cheaper, more self-contained threats and offers no competitive application. Legacy and Vintage move too fast for a four-drop with no immediate impact. Pauper is the one non-Commander format worth a glance, where bulk commons with unique effects occasionally carve out niche roles, but the effect here is too parasitic without the right support. Standard legality is technically correct but practically irrelevant.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.07 bulk tier

At $0.07, Earth Village Ruffians is deep bulk — buy a playset for the cost of a sleeve. The price reflects its narrow application accurately and is unlikely to move unless a Commander precon prints a land-creature synergy commander that pushes the archetype into mainstream popularity.

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