One of the Avatar-themed cutest MTG cards turns out to be a nasty compact force.

the popular card game’s Avatar crossover set isn't set to hit the general market in the coming days, however following prerelease weekends this past weekend, one cheap green card experienced a surge in price.

Even during previews, this small creature garnered widespread focus. This two-power, two-toughness that costs a single green and one generic mana, it has level 1 earthbending (perhaps the strongest of the elemental mechanics available). Its key advantage in its design comes from its second ability: If you tap a creature for mana, it provides bonus green mana.

Initially, the card was available below $30. Following the early events, yet, the market price jumped to $49.66 and one seller offering for sale at $60.00. Why are we seeing premium pricing for this little creature? Mainly due to the rapid resource generation it enables.

As it hits the battlefield, the cub turns one land to a creature land that has earthbending. Combined with its other power, while it is not removed, every earthbent land produces twice the mana — in addition to mana-producing creatures on your side which tap for mana.

An ideal partner for synergy is this one-mana elf, a low-cost creature which can be tapped for G mana. However numerous other mana generation creatures available. Another option costs a bit more that’s a 1/3 for two mana instead.

Using land cards, creatures that tap for mana, alongside this card, it's simple to summon a very big pricey threat into play early in the game. Momentum builds exponentially by maintaining dominance from that point.

By incorporating a secondary color with this approach, options such as these mana-fixing creatures are excellent picks that can make all five colors. Another card, a useful enchantment creature enables playing another terrain every round as well as transforms all of your lands so they count as all basics. You can also consider something like a card called A Realm Reborn, costing six mana gives all of your permanents the power to be tapped for a mana of any type — even any creature you have on the board.

The cub might seem overpowered when it comes to ramping up your mana generation, but how do you win for a deck like this? A common and powerful choice is this legendary creature. Its power and toughness are both equal to the number of lands you control, and it changes all of your nontoken creatures into Forests in addition to other subtypes. In other words, each creature you control may generate two green mana when tapped.

This additional option provides a high-cost, powerful body that benefits from many terrain cards (like Ashaya, P/T are based on your land total).

Nissa works perfectly in this deck. Her passive ability allows every Forest generate an additional green mana. (With a Badgermole Cub, that means those lands produce triple green.) Her main ability acts as a form of land animation, placing counters on terrain, which is great but does not overlap with earthbend. Her ultimate, however, grants all of your lands indestructible and allows you to search for all the remaining forests in the deck. If you can actually activate this power, it almost certainly you win.

This card is a must-have for all green Avatar deck focusing on earthbend. By including red-green, consider Bumi. This card features earthbend 4, and when it hits a player in combat, land creatures untap and may attack once more. Although this card has emerged as a popular Commander choice, this small creature is set to be among the top, possibly the sought-after card in the collaboration.