One of Avatar's cutest MTG cards is a nasty little contender.

the popular card game’s special Avatar expansion isn't set to get a wider release in the coming days, however following early access events over the last few days, an affordable green creature experienced a surge in market worth.

Throughout the spoiler season, this small creature drew widespread focus. This two-power, two-toughness that costs G and 1 mana, it has Earthbending 1 (possibly the strongest within the four bending abilities in the set). Its key advantage here is an additional effect: Whenever mana is generated by tapping a creature, you gain one extra green mana.

When first listed, the card was available for $26.98. Following the early events, though, its value has shot up to $49.66 and one seller offering for sale at $60.00. The reason for premium pricing on this adorable card? Primarily due to the rapid resource generation it enables.

When it arrives play, this creature transforms one land so it becomes a creature with earthbend. Alongside its mana-doubling effect, if it is not removed, each affected land produces twice the mana — along with other creatures in your control which tap for mana.

The obvious go-to to combine with would be Llanowar Elves, a low-cost creature that taps to generate G mana. Yet numerous creatures that make mana available. Another option costs a bit more a 1/3 creature costing two mana as an alternative.

Using land cards, mana-producing creatures, alongside this card, you may quickly play a massive and very expensive creature on the board early in the game. The situation escalates out of control with continued aggression from that point.

By incorporating an additional hue with this approach, cards like Fuel Tank Feaster, Ilysian Caryatid, and Paradise Druid are excellent picks which produce any mana color. And something like this powerful dryad lets you play another terrain each turn plus transforms all of your lands so they count as all basics. It's also worth trying such as the enchantment A Realm Reborn, which for six mana provides every card you own the capacity to produce any color mana — even any creature you have on the board.

This card may be OP in terms of boosting mana production, however what’s the endgame finisher with this archetype? An often-seen solution already is Ashaya, Soul of the Wild. Its stats match how many lands you have, and it changes your non-token creatures to be Forests in addition to their other types. In other words, every single creature on your board is able to produce double green when tapped.

Another creature is a costly, large threat that benefits from many terrain cards (like Ashaya, its power and toughness match the number of lands you control).

This Planeswalker is an excellent fit in this deck. Her passive ability allows all Forests tap for one more G. (If you have the cub, that means each one yield three G.) Her main ability functions like a form of land animation, adding counters to a noncreature land, which is great but it isn't redundant with the cub's ability. Her -8 ability, however, makes all of your lands immune to destruction and lets you put onto the battlefield all the remaining forests in your deck. If you can actually activate the ultimate, it’s pretty much the game ends.

This card is a must-have in any decks using green and Avatar built around earthbend. If you dip into red-green, there’s Bumi Unleashed. This card features level 4 earthbending, and if damage is dealt to a player, land creatures untap for another attack. While that version has emerged as a popular Commander choice, this small creature is definitely going to remain among the top, possibly the sought-after card in the Avatar set.