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Bitter Work

Avatar: The Last Airbender #210 uncommon
Enchantment |
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Bitter Work

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Live Value $0.33
Foil Multiplier: 1.03x
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Never reprinted since its original release.

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Rarity
uncommon
Set Origin
Daily Shift
0.00%
EDHREC Rank
#4,761
Mana Cost
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Oracle Data

Card Type Enchantment
Color Identity Green , Red
🖋️ Curator's Notes
Whenever you attack a player with one or more creatures with power 4 or greater, draw a card.

Exhaust — 4: 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.)
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Official Judge Precedents

10 Precedents

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.

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.

"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."

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 {G}.

If an ability triggers whenever you activate an exhaust ability, that ability resolves before the exhaust ability resolves.

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.

Exhaust abilities can be activated any time you could normally activate an ability.

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.

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.

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.

📜 Technical Attributes
Release Date: 2025-11-21
Artist Reference: Bun Toujo
Border Profile: black
✨ Variants & Finishes
Available Finishes Standard • Traditional Foil
Promo Status universesbeyond
Edition Status Original Printing

Sanctioned Formats

standard legal
modern legal
legacy legal
commander legal
pioneer legal
pauper not_legal
vintage legal
brawl legal
explorer not_legal
penny not_legal
predh not_legal
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