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Bitter Work

{1}{R}{G}

Enchantment

TLAAvatar: The Last Airbender#210uncommon
Finishes
Nonfoil · Foil
Border
black
Frame
2015
Pull rate
~1 in 30–299
Illustrator
Bun Toujo
Found in
Avatar The Last Airbender Play Booster Pack · Avatar The Last Airbender Collector Booster Pack
Printings1EDHREC rank#4,778
CommanderLegalModernLegalStandardLegal
Format legality

Constructed

StandardLegal
PioneerLegal
ModernLegal
LegacyLegal
VintageLegal
PauperNot legal

Commander

CommanderLegal
Pauper CommanderNot legal
Duel CommanderLegal
PreDHNot legal
OathbreakerLegal
Tiny LeadersLegal

Arena

AlchemyLegal
HistoricLegal
TimelessLegal
BrawlLegal
Standard BrawlLegal
Competitive BrawlLegal
GladiatorLegal

Other

PremodernNot legal
Old SchoolNot legal
Penny DreadfulNot legal
Future StandardLegal
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.)
Exhaust
Plays as:
Card DrawAttack TriggerCounter Placer
Market · per finishspark updated 24h ago · prices as of 2026-08-29
Nonfoil+13.8%
$0.33
$0.05 low$0.03 gapTCGplayer
Foil-5.6%
$0.34
$0.02 low-$0.06 gapTCGplayer
Cheapest playable copy$0.33· across 1 printing· you're viewing it

Rulings

10 · latest Oct 2, 2025
  • WotCOct 2, 2025

    "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."

  • WotCOct 2, 2025

    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.

  • WotCOct 2, 2025

    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.

  • WotCOct 2, 2025

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

  • WotCOct 2, 2025

    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.

  • WotCOct 2, 2025

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

  • WotCOct 2, 2025

    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.

  • WotCOct 2, 2025

    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.

  • WotCOct 2, 2025

    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}.

  • WotCOct 2, 2025

    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.