Rebellious Captives
Creature — Human Peasant Ally
Exhaust — 
: Put two +1/+1 counters on this creature, then 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. Activate each exhaust ability only once.)
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Avatar: The Last Airbender
- Price
- $0.16
- EDHREC rank
- #14321
Rebellious Captives puts two 3/2 bodies on the board and untaps up to two lands — that's immediate tempo and mana recovery stapled together. The cost is real: five mana at sorcery speed is a lot to ask, and Bumi, Unleashed is the commander that makes it worth paying.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Bumi, Unleashed
Bumi, Unleashed triggers off creatures entering or leaving the battlefield, and Rebellious Captives drops two at once while refueling the mana to keep the engine spinning the same turn.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Rebellious Captives is a niche piece rather than a staple — the land-untap clause matters most in decks that want to chain spells or activate abilities on the same turn, and the two bodies have real synergy with commanders that count or sacrifice creatures. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer, five mana for this effect is too slow to compete with leaner token generators and land-untap pieces, so it won't see meaningful play there. Pauper is where the card has the most room to surprise, since the combination of token production and mana acceleration at common rarity is genuinely unusual — whether a shell exists to abuse it is the open question.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.16 bulk tier
At $0.16, Rebellious Captives is deep bulk — the kind of card you pick up as a throw-in without a second thought. Bulk commons and uncommons rarely appreciate unless a specific combo or build pushes demand, so treat it as a cheap role-player and nothing more.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.