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Haru, Hidden Talent

Legendary Creature — Human Peasant Ally

Whenever another Ally you control 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.)

CMC
2
Mana cost
{1}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Avatar: The Last Airbender
Price
$0.30
EDHREC rank
#4619
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Haru, Hidden Talent card art
Haru, Hidden Talent lands and immediately starts generating 1/1 Warrior tokens on landfall, turning every fetch, bounce land, or Retreat to Emeria trigger into a board presence without spending additional mana. The cost is a three-mana 2/3 with no immediate protection — he needs a turn to prove himself, and a timely removal spell erases the investment entirely. Avatar Aang decks run him because the token output compounds fast enough to justify the risk.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01

Avatar Aang

77.3% of decks · synergy 0.73

Avatar Aang's landfall triggers already reward playing extra lands each turn, and Haru, Hidden Talent converts every one of those triggers into a body — the synergy score of 0.73 reflects how naturally he slots into a deck that was already doing exactly what he wants. Over 77% of Avatar Aang decks include him, which is about as close to auto-include as a non-land card gets.

02
Katara, the Fearless

Katara, the Fearless

62.6% of decks · synergy 0.58

Katara, the Fearless benefits from a wide board to fuel her abilities, and Haru, Hidden Talent supplies exactly that by printing Warriors off landfall. At 62% inclusion across nearly 7,700 decks, he's a reliable engine piece rather than a fringe pick in Katara lists.

03
Bumi, Unleashed

Bumi, Unleashed

40.2% of decks · synergy 0.39

Bumi, Unleashed cares about creature count and combat, so the steady Warrior production from Haru, Hidden Talent gives Bumi more material to work with every time a land enters the battlefield. He shows up in roughly 40% of Bumi decks — present enough to be a consistent recommendation.

04

Aang, at the Crossroads

27.9% of decks · synergy 0.24

Aang, at the Crossroads runs a lower synergy score of 0.24, but Haru, Hidden Talent still fits because the deck's land-focused game plan means those landfall triggers accumulate over a long game. He's in about 28% of Aang, at the Crossroads lists — worth consideration, not an automatic inclusion.

05
Toph, the First Metalbender

Toph, the First Metalbender

23.1% of decks · synergy 0.20

Toph, the First Metalbender decks cover a massive 25,000+ registered lists, and Haru, Hidden Talent appears in 23% of them — a wide audience rewarding the same landfall-to-tokens conversion Toph's aggressive creature strategies want. He's a role-player here rather than a cornerstone, but the volume of decks running him signals real utility.

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

Haru, Hidden Talent is legal across Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but his home is Commander — landfall payoffs that generate tokens turn-over-turn are built for 40-life, multiplayer games where incremental board presence compounds into threats. In Standard and Pioneer, a three-mana 2/3 that requires extra land drops to generate value is slow against proactive aggro strategies and fragile against the removal density of those formats. Modern and Legacy move too fast for a three-mana creature that doesn't affect the board immediately and has no enters-the-battlefield effect. Commander is where Haru, Hidden Talent is genuinely strong: the longer game, the Avatar Aang and Katara shells built around landfall, and the critical mass of fetch lands and land recursion all let him do exactly what he was designed to do.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

487 decks
Retreat to EmeriaHaru, Hidden TalentCabaretti Courtyard

Retreat to EmeriaHaru, Hidden TalentCabaretti Courtyard

Infinite ETB; Infinite lifegain triggers; Infinite lifegain; Infinite creature tokens; Near-infinite landfall triggers; Infinite landfall triggers; Put all basic Mountains from your library onto the battlefield tapped; Put all basic Forests from your library onto the battlefield tapped; Put all basic Plains from your library onto the battlefield tapped

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336 decks
Retreat to EmeriaHaru, Hidden TalentBrokers Hideout

Retreat to EmeriaHaru, Hidden TalentBrokers Hideout

Infinite ETB; Infinite lifegain triggers; Infinite lifegain; Infinite creature tokens; Near-infinite landfall triggers; Infinite landfall triggers; Put all basic Forests from your library onto the battlefield tapped; Put all basic Plains from your library onto the battlefield tapped; Put all basic Islands from your library onto the battlefield tapped

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Price Context

Current price

$0.30 bulk tier

At $0.30, Haru, Hidden Talent is firmly bulk, which is appropriate for a card whose power is real but format-narrow. Demand from Avatar Aang and Katara, the Fearless Commander players keeps a floor under it, but don't expect significant price movement unless a new landfall-focused Commander pushes token-generation strategies into heavier rotation.

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