Earthbending Lesson

Sorcery — Lesson

Earthbend 4. (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.)

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Alchemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Freeform	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Historic Brawl	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pauper	Legal
Pauper Duel Commander	Legal
Pauper EDH	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Pre-release	Legal
Standard	Legal
Standard Brawl	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (1)

legendofa on earthbending and natural land creatures

9 months ago

I'm going to use Earthbending Lesson's earthbend 4 for this, for simplicity's sake and reminder text.

If you target Restless Prairie with Earthbending Lesson, it becomes a 0/0 creature with four +1/+1 counters permanently (and other earthbending stuff). It also has an activated ability that makes it a 3/3 Llama creature. If you activate this ability, it becomes a 3/3, pumped to 7/7 with the counters, until end of turn when it goes back to a 0/0.

For the Awakened Skyclave  ^Flip, it becomes a 0/0 with four +1/+1 counters instead of a 4/4, but that's a side point to the main question. When it dies and returns thanks to the earthbending ability, going off rule 712.14, "A double-faced card put onto the battlefield from a zone other than the stack enters the battlefield with its front face up by default." So when the earthbent Skyclave dies or is exiled, it's going to return as a tapped Invasion of Zendikar  ^Flip.