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Earthbender Ascension

Enchantment2 generic manaGreen mana

The enters trigger front-loads two forms of ground-preparation into a single cast: an earthbend 2 to stock or grow lands, then a fetch that puts a basic onto the battlefield tapped. Both of those matter for what comes after, because the second half of the card is a landfall engine that turns every land drop into a quest counter, and the fetch you just resolved is itself a landfall trigger. That sequencing is the design's cleverest turn: the same effect that fixes your mana also advances the counter clock, so the card starts building toward its four-counter payoff the moment it resolves. Once the fourth quest counter lands, the trigger hands a +1/+1 counter and trample to a creature you control, and it keeps arming on every subsequent land entering. The structure rewards a deck already built to flood the board with lands rather than one splashing green for a value enchantment: extra land drops, land recursion, and any effect that sneaks a land onto the battlefield feeds the same growing threat. It sits in a long line of green enchantments that ask you to spend the early turns preparing terrain and cash the investment later, but the twist here is that the ramp and the win condition draw from the same well. Every land you commit does double duty, which makes the card less a payoff you build toward and more an engine that quietly compounds while you play your ordinary green game.

Earthbender Ascension (ptla)
PTLA · #175srare
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Oracle Text

Rules text

When this enchantment enters, earthbend 2. Then search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, put a quest counter on this enchantment. When you do, if it has four or more quest counters on it, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. It gains trample until end of turn.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
Legal
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
Legal
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

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