Bitter Work

Bitter Work1RG
EnchantmentTLA · U

Whenever you attack a player with one or more creatures with power 4 or greater, draw a card.

Exhaust — 4: Earthbend 4. Activate only during your turn. (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. Activate each exhaust ability only once.)

Avatar: The Last Airbender · Uncommon
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Legality

9 formats
StandardLegal
PioneerLegal
ModernLegal
PremodernNot legal
LegacyLegal
VintageLegal
PauperNot legal
Duel CommanderLegal
cEDHLegal

B/R history

Never banned or restricted in any format Moxou tracks.

Rulings

10
  1. 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."

  2. 2025-10-02

    Bitter Work's first ability has you draw just one card per player you attack with a creature with power 4 or greater, no matter how many creatures with power 4 or greater you attack them with beyond the first.

  3. 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.

  4. 2025-10-02

    Exhaust abilities can be activated any time you could normally activate an ability.

  5. 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.

  6. 2025-10-02

    If an ability triggers whenever you activate an exhaust ability, that ability resolves before the exhaust ability resolves.

  7. 2025-10-02

    If an exhaust ability of a permanent is activated, and then that permanent leaves the battlefield and returns to the battlefield, it becomes a new object so its exhaust ability can be activated again.

  8. 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.

  9. 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 {G}.

  10. 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.

Versions

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SetNo.YearRarityArtist
TLAAvatar: The Last Airbender2102025UncommonBun Toujo

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