Bumi, King of Three Trials
Legendary Creature — Human Noble Ally
When Bumi enters, choose up to X, where X is the number of Lesson cards in your graveyard —
• Put three +1/+1 counters on Bumi.
• Target player scries 3.
• Earthbend 3. (Target land you control becomes a 0/0 creature with haste that's still a land. Put three +1/+1 counters on it. When it dies or is exiled, return it to the battlefield tapped.)
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- Set
- Avatar: The Last Airbender (TLA #169)
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Mana value
- 6
- Released
- 2025-11-21
- Artist
- Thomas Chamberlain-Keen
- EDHREC rank
- #10,201
- Colour identity
- Finishes
- Nonfoil, Foil
- Served from
- Local database
Commander bracket
Derived from card traits, not a ruling — bracket rules turn on how a deck intends to use a card. Bracket rules
EDHREC
Combos
Not part of any combo on Commander Spellbook.
Commander recommendations
Top synergy 50
Played far more in this commander's decks than elsewhere.
- Seismic Sense
- Rockalanche
- True Ancestry
- Bumi's Feast Lecture
- Earthbending Lesson
- Shared Roots
- Cycle of Renewal
- Basic Conjuration
- Cracked Earth Technique
- Origin of Metalbending
- Introduction to Prophecy
- Match the Odds
- The Art of Tea
- Elemental Teachings
- Containment Breach
- Environmental Sciences
- Aang's Journey
- Energybending
- Zuko's Exile
- Badgermole
- Earth Kingdom General
- Introduction to Annihilation
- Ba Sing Se
- Solid Ground
- Toph, the Blind Bandit
- Omnath, Locus of the Void
- Expanded Anatomy
- Bumi, Eclectic Earthbender
- Seed of Hope
- Earthbender Ascension
- Mascot Exhibition
- Sparring Dummy
- Germination Practicum
- Leaves from the Vine
- Rumble Arena
- Flopsie, Bumi's Buddy
- Sylvan Advocate
- Satyr Wayfinder
- Secret Tunnel
- Heroic Feast
- Aftermath Analyst
- The Boulder, Ready to Rumble
- Summon: Titan
- Wasteful Harvest
- Toph, Earthbending Master
- Earth Rumble
- Earthbending Student
- Grapple with the Past
- Fabled Passage
- Shigeki, Jukai Visionary
Most included 50
Highest share of decks running them, distinctive or not.
- Forest
- Shared Roots
- Seismic Sense
- Rockalanche
- Cycle of Renewal
- True Ancestry
- Origin of Metalbending
- Bumi's Feast Lecture
- Earthbending Lesson
- Cracked Earth Technique
- Basic Conjuration
- Introduction to Prophecy
- Match the Odds
- Elemental Teachings
- The Art of Tea
- Containment Breach
- Environmental Sciences
- Aang's Journey
- Zuko's Exile
- Ba Sing Se
- Energybending
- Badgermole
- Earth Kingdom General
- Sol Ring
- Toph, the Blind Bandit
- Introduction to Annihilation
- Solid Ground
- Cultivate
- Omnath, Locus of the Void
- Eternal Witness
- Bumi, Eclectic Earthbender
- Expanded Anatomy
- Beast Within
- Seed of Hope
- Earthbender Ascension
- Germination Practicum
- Mascot Exhibition
- Llanowar Elves
- Myriad Landscape
- Sparring Dummy
- Fabled Passage
- Flopsie, Bumi's Buddy
- Aftermath Analyst
- Elvish Mystic
- Rampant Growth
- Rumble Arena
- Leaves from the Vine
- Secret Tunnel
- Heroic Feast
- Heroic Intervention
Format legality
Rulings
- 2025-10-02
"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."
- 2025-10-02
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.
- 2025-10-02
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.
- 2025-10-02
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.
- 2025-10-02
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
. - 2025-10-02
You can't choose the same mode of Bumi, King of Three Trials's triggered ability more than once. As there are only three modes, even if X is greater than three, you won't get additional effects after choosing each mode once.
- 2025-10-02
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.