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the popular card game’s Avatar crossover set isn't set to become widely available in the coming days, yet following prerelease weekends recently, a low-cost green spell saw a sharp rise in market worth.

Even during previews, the earthbending cub attracted a lot of attention. This two-power, two-toughness priced at one green and one colorless mana, Badgermole Cub features the Earthbend 1 ability (possibly the most effective within the set’s four “bending” mechanics). The major perk in its design lies in another power: If a creature is tapped to produce mana, add an additional green mana.

Initially, the card could be purchased below $30. Post-prerelease, yet, its value has shot up to $49.66 and one seller offering priced at sixty dollars. Why are we seeing such high costs on this adorable card? Mostly due to the incredible mana acceleration it provides.

When it arrives the board, this creature turns a land to a creature land that has earthbending. Combined with its other power, as long as it is not removed, those lands generates double mana — plus other creatures you have that generate mana.

The obvious go-to to combine with includes the classic Llanowar Elves, a cheap 1/1 that produces a green resource. However there are plenty of other mana generation creatures in the game. This particular druid is a higher-cost choice a 1/3 creature at a two-mana value in comparison.

By playing lands, dorks that generate resources, and Badgermole Cub, it's simple to summon an enormous high-cost creature on the board by round three or four. The situation escalates rapidly by maintaining dominance from there.

By incorporating a secondary color in this strategy, examples including versatile mana producers work perfectly which produce any mana color. Another card, this powerful dryad enables playing another terrain per turn as well as turns every land you control into every basic land type. Another possibility is such as a card called A Realm Reborn, at a six-mana investment gives all of your permanents the power to tap and generate any color mana — even each creature you have on the board.

This card could be too strong when it comes to ramping up your mana generation, yet what closes out the game for a deck like this? One obvious and popular answer has been Ashaya, Soul of the Wild. Its power and toughness are set by how many lands you have, and it makes all of your nontoken creatures into Forests along with their other types. In other words, all your creatures you control is able to tap for two G when tapped.

This additional option is another expensive, beefy creature that thrives with lots of lands (like Ashaya, its stats match the number of lands you control).

Nissa is an excellent fit as a staple. Her passive ability causes every Forest generate an additional green mana. (Combined with earthbend, that means those lands yield three G.) One loyalty ability functions like an early earthbend, putting +1/+1 counters on a land, which is great though it doesn't stack with the cub's ability. The minus ability, though, renders your entire land base unbreakable enabling you to put onto the battlefield your remaining Forests from your library. Once you trigger this power, it’s pretty much you win.

This card is pretty much essential for any kind of decks using green and Avatar focusing on the earthbend mechanic. If you dip into Gruul colors, there’s Bumi Unleashed. It possesses level 4 earthbending, plus if damage is dealt in combat, all land creatures are ready again and can attack again. Even though Bumi has become a popular Commander choice, this small creature will surely stay one of, if not the most popular pick in the collaboration.