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Earthbending Student

Creature — Human Warrior Ally

When this creature enters, 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.)
Land creatures you control have vigilance. (Attacking doesn't cause them to tap.)

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Avatar: The Last Airbender Eternal
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#6098
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Earthbending Student card art
Earthbending Student generates a land token copy of a target land you control whenever it enters or attacks — that's repeated free ramp stapled to a creature, and Ashaya, Soul of the Wild turns every creature you play into a land, meaning the Student can copy those too. The cost is a three-mana 2/3 with no evasion, so it lives or dies by the support around it; in the right shell, specifically anything headlined by Toph, Earthbending Master, it's one of the best value engines in the deck.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Toph, Earthbending Master

Toph, Earthbending Master

60.7% of decks · synergy 0.58

Toph, Earthbending Master is the natural home — her ability to tap lands for effects means every additional land token Earthbending Student produces is both ramp and fuel for Toph's tap-based payoffs, creating a compounding engine that scales fast.

02
Bumi, Unleashed

Bumi, Unleashed

53.5% of decks · synergy 0.51

Bumi, Unleashed cares about landfall and untapping permanents, so Earthbending Student dropping a fresh land token every attack triggers both halves of that gameplan simultaneously.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Earthbending Student is a Commander card through and through — the engine it powers needs multiple turns, a supporting cast of landfall or land-tap payoffs, and a critical mass of permanents that simply don't exist in the faster non-rotating formats where it's legal on paper. In Legacy and Vintage, a three-mana 2/3 with a slow value engine has no competitive footing; the formats move too fast for land-token accumulation to matter. Commander is where Earthbending Student earns its slot: the 100-card singleton environment lets you stack landfall triggers, Ashaya effects, and tap-payoff commanders into a coherent deck that makes the Student look like a must-answer threat. Oathbreaker is a viable secondary home if the signature spell and planeswalker support a land-centric strategy.

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Price Context

Current price

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Pricing data for Earthbending Student isn't available at this time, so check Scryfall or your preferred retailer for the current market rate. Given its narrow but high-synergy role, expect pricing to track closely with demand from the Avatar: The Last Airbender Commander precon community.

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