Bitter Work
Mana value3TypeEnchantment
Color identity Gruul
RarityUncommon
SetAvatar: The Last Airbender (TLA)
ArtistBun Toujo
Price€0.22 · foil €0.24 · $0.29About this card
Bitter Work is an enchantment card in Magic: The Gathering with mana value 3 (color identity: green and red). Printed in Avatar: The Last Airbender (2025). Role in Commander: card draw. It is one of the 5,000 most played cards in Commander (EDHREC rank 4,488). Legal in Commander, Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy and Vintage. Cardmarket price: €0.22.
Bitter Work
Exhaust —
: Earthbend 4. Activate only during your turn. (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. Activate each exhaust ability only once.)Name in each language
Legality
Rulings
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Earthbend doesn't give the land you control a color. As most lands are colorless, in most cases the resulting land creature will also be colorless.
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If an exhaust ability of a permanent is activated, and then that permanent leaves the battlefield and returns to the battlefield, it becomes a new object so its exhaust ability can be activated again.
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If a land was animated by earthbend and would go to any zone other than the graveyard or exile, it will not be returned to the battlefield by the delayed triggered ability created by earthbend.
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If an ability triggers whenever you activate an exhaust ability, that ability resolves before the exhaust ability resolves.
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Bitter Work's first ability has you draw just one card per player you attack with a creature with power 4 or greater, no matter how many creatures with power 4 or greater you attack them with beyond the first.
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"Earthbend N" means "Target land you control becomes a 0/0 land creature with haste in addition to its other types. Put N +1/+1 counters on it. When it dies or is exiled, return it to the battlefield tapped under your control."
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Exhaust abilities can be activated any time you could normally activate an ability.
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If the targeted land becomes an illegal target before the spell or ability that includes earthbend resolves, earthbend does nothing. If the spell or ability didn't have other targets, it won't resolve.
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The land will retain any other types, subtypes, or supertypes it previously had. It will also retain any mana abilities it had as a result of those subtypes. For example, a Forest that's turned into a creature this way can still be tapped for .
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You may target a land that is already a creature, perhaps because of a previous earthbend ability. The land will get the +1/+1 counters, gain haste, and have its base power and toughness set to 0/0.
