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the popular card game’s Avatar crossover set isn't set to become widely available in the coming days, however due to prerelease weekends this past weekend, an affordable green creature experienced a surge in value.

Even during previews, the earthbending cub garnered a lot of attention. A 2/2 priced at one green and one colorless mana, the card has Earthbending 1 (possibly the best among the four bending abilities in the set). Its key advantage with this card lies in its second ability: If you tap a creature for mana, add an additional green mana.

At its cheapest, this card could be purchased at around $27. Post-prerelease, though, the market price escalated to $49.66 with at least one listed priced at sixty dollars. What explains Vivi prices on this adorable card? Mainly because of the incredible mana acceleration it provides.

When it arrives the board, this creature converts a terrain card so it becomes a creature with earthbend. And with that second ability, if it is not removed, every earthbent land produces twice the mana — along with mana-producing creatures on your side that produce resources.

An ideal partner to combine with is this one-mana elf, an inexpensive 1/1 that taps to generate a green resource. But numerous creatures that make mana out there. Druid of the Cowl costs a bit more a 1/3 creature for two mana instead.

By playing lands, dorks that generate resources, plus the cub, it's simple to summon a very big and very expensive threat on the battlefield by round three or four. Momentum builds out of control by maintaining dominance after that.

By incorporating an additional hue with this approach, examples including these mana-fixing creatures work perfectly that generate any mana color. Another card, Dryad of the Ilysian Grove allows you to put another terrain each turn as well as turns your entire land base so they count as all basics. You can also consider for example this six-mana enchantment, which for six mana gives each permanent you control the capacity to produce a mana of any type — which covers all creatures in play.

The cub might seem overpowered regarding accelerating your resources, however how do you win for a deck like this? One obvious and popular answer has been this legendary creature. Its power and toughness are set by the number of lands you control, and it makes your non-token creatures Forests in addition to other subtypes. This means, all your creatures in play may produce double green if used for mana.

This additional option provides a high-cost, powerful body that benefits from lots of lands (like Ashaya, its stats are based on your land total).

Nissa, Who Shakes the World works perfectly as a staple. Her passive ability causes every Forest produce extra green. (Combined with earthbend, so each one produce triple green.) Her main ability acts as an early earthbend, putting +1/+1 counters on terrain, handy though it doesn't stack with earthbending. Her ultimate, on the other hand, grants your entire land base immune to destruction and lets you search for all the remaining forests in the deck. If you can actually activate that ability, it’s pretty much you win.

The cub is a must-have for any kind of decks using green and Avatar built around the earthbend mechanic. If you dip into Gruul colors, consider this legendary card. This card features earthbend 4, and when he deals combat damage to an opponent, each animated land become untapped and can attack again. While that version is a beloved leader, the cute little Badgermole Cub is set to be among the top, possibly the sought-after card in the collaboration.