Earthbender Ascension
Enchantment
When this enchantment enters, earthbend 2. Then search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, put a quest counter on this enchantment. When you do, if it has four or more quest counters on it, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. It gains trample until end of turn.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Avatar: The Last Airbender Promos
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #2720
Earthbender Ascension turns land drops into a repeatable threat engine — once it ascends, you're generating value every turn without spending additional cards. Toph, Earthbending Master is the natural home, but any deck that moves lands consistently gets real mileage from this.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Toph, Earthbending Master
Toph, Earthbending Master appears in over 76% of registered Earthbender Ascension lists because she triggers land-based payoffs constantly, making the ascension counter threshold trivial to hit and the payoff immediate.
Bumi, Unleashed
Bumi, Unleashed runs Earthbender Ascension in nearly 74% of builds — his landfall-adjacent chaos engine accelerates the enchantment's counters while the recurring value keeps the board pressure mounting.
Avatar Aang
Avatar Aang's multicolor landfall triggers make Earthbender Ascension a consistent overperformer, showing up in 63% of his lists as a low-cost enchantment that scales with the deck's natural game plan.
Toph, Hardheaded Teacher
Toph, Hardheaded Teacher reaches for Earthbender Ascension in roughly 60% of decks because the enchantment rewards exactly the land-heavy, stompy playstyle she encourages.
Toph, the First Metalbender
Toph, the First Metalbender appears in nearly 60% of Earthbender Ascension builds — her artifact-and-land synergy package makes ascending fast and the payoff synergizes cleanly with her board-wide buffs.
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 |
Earthbender Ascension is legal across Commander, Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but Commander is where it actually matters. In 60-card formats the enchantment is too slow and too conditional — you're not reliably moving enough lands to ascend before the game ends. In Commander, the 100-card singleton environment and longer game clock give it exactly the room it needs to pay off, especially in green-based landfall or Avatar-tribal builds where hitting the counter threshold is a matter of turns, not luck.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
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Pricing data for Earthbender Ascension isn't currently available, so check Scryfall or your preferred retailer for the live figure. Given its 70%+ inclusion rate in the most popular Avatar-set commanders, demand is real — if the price is low, it's worth picking up before that catches up.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.