One of the Avatar-themed most adorable Magic cards proves to be a nasty small powerhouse.

Magic: The Gathering’s collaboration with Avatar will not get a wider release until later this week, however after prerelease weekends this past weekend, one cheap green card has already exploded in price.

From the initial reveals, Badgermole Cub attracted significant interest. A creature with stats 2/2 priced at G and 1 mana, the card has Earthbending 1 (possibly the most effective within the set’s four “bending” mechanics). The major perk here is another power: If you tap a creature for mana, you gain one extra green mana.

Initially, Badgermole Cub could be purchased at around $27. After the pre-release weekend, however, the market price jumped to $49.66 with at least one listed priced at sixty dollars. The reason for Vivi prices for this little creature? Mainly because of the explosive mana ramping it can produce.

When it arrives the battlefield, this creature turns one land into a creature granting it earthbend. Alongside its mana-doubling effect, as long as it remains on the board, those lands generates double mana — in addition to other creatures in your control that produce resources.

A clear choice for synergy is this one-mana elf, a low-cost creature which can be tapped for G mana. Yet numerous alternative mana dorks out there. This particular druid is a more expensive alternative that’s a 1/3 costing two mana in comparison.

Deploying terrain, mana-producing creatures, alongside this card, you can easily get an enormous and very expensive threat into play within a few turns. The situation escalates exponentially with continued aggression after that.

By incorporating another color in this strategy, examples including these mana-fixing creatures work perfectly that can make any mana color. Additionally, this powerful dryad enables playing one extra land each turn plus transforms all of your lands so they count as all basics. You can also consider for example a card called A Realm Reborn, which for six mana gives all of your permanents the capacity to tap and generate a mana of any type — even each creature you have on the board.

The cub might seem overpowered regarding boosting mana production, but what closes out the game for a deck like this? An often-seen solution is Ashaya, Soul of the Wild. Its stats are set by how many lands you have, and it changes each creature you own to be Forests in addition to their other types. In other words, every single creature in play may generate two green mana if used for mana.

Another creature provides a high-cost, powerful body which gains from many terrain cards (as with the previous card, its power and toughness are based on the number of lands you control).

This Planeswalker works perfectly as a go-to Planeswalker. Her passive ability allows every Forest tap for one more G. (With a Badgermole Cub, so all earthbend forests generate three green mana.) One loyalty ability is essentially an early earthbend, placing counters on a land, a useful effect but it isn't redundant with earthbending. Her ultimate, on the other hand, makes your entire land base indestructible enabling you to put onto the battlefield every Forest left in the deck. Once you trigger the ultimate, it’s pretty much you win.

The cub is a must-have for all green Avatar deck focusing on earthbend. If you dip into red-green, there’s Bumi Unleashed. It possesses level 4 earthbending, plus if damage is dealt to a player, all land creatures untap for another attack. Even though Bumi is a beloved leader, this small creature will surely stay among the top, possibly the desired card in the collaboration.