Earthbending Lesson

Oracle Text

Earthbend 4. (Target land you control becomes a 0/0 creature with haste that's still a land. Put four +1/+1 counters on it. When it dies or is exiled, return it to the battlefield tapped.)

Card Details

-/-Power / Toughness

3GMana Cost

1Prints

Set

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Character Background

Earthbending Lesson reads like a green moral: you literally turn terrain into a weapon, animating a land into a 4/4 with haste and a built‑in return-on-death. In play that makes it a midrange/tempo-value piece — it can apply immediate pressure, absorb removal, and grind out advantages across board wipes because the land comes back tapped. The card shines when you build around usable nonbasic lands and interactions that double-dip on creature deaths or land entries: pair it with sacrifice outlets (e.g., Viscera Seer or a green sac engine) to convert the animated land into card advantage, or lean on landfall payoffs like Avenger of Zendikar or Tireless Provisioner to monetize repeats. Deckbuilding tip: include a couple resilient utility lands and at least one reliable outlet or blink to turn the Lesson into repeatable value rather than a one-off tempo play; thematically it’s a low-risk way to make the battlefield itself fight for you.

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