A standout from the Avatar-themed most adorable MTG cards is a formidable small powerhouse.

MTG’s collaboration with Avatar will not get a wider release in the coming days, however after prerelease weekends this past weekend, a low-cost green spell saw a sharp rise in value.

From the initial reveals, this small creature attracted significant interest. A 2/2 that costs one green and one colorless mana, Badgermole Cub includes Earthbending 1 (arguably the most effective of the four bending abilities in the set). The major perk with this card is another power: Each time mana is generated by tapping a creature, add an additional green mana.

At its cheapest, this card could be purchased at around $27. Following the early events, however, its value jumped to $49.66 including listings for sale at $60.00. Why are we seeing Vivi prices on this adorable card? Primarily due to the explosive mana ramping it enables.

As it hits the board, Badgermole Cub converts one land to a creature land granting it earthbend. Alongside its mana-doubling effect, as long as it stays in play, every earthbent land generates double mana — along with mana-producing creatures on your side that produce resources.

A clear choice for synergy is this one-mana elf, an inexpensive 1/1 that taps to generate one green mana. But numerous other mana generation creatures out there. This particular druid is a more expensive alternative that’s a 1/3 at a two-mana value instead.

Using land cards, creatures that tap for mana, and Badgermole Cub, you can easily get an enormous high-cost threat into play by round three or four. Momentum builds rapidly by maintaining dominance from that point.

If you dip into a secondary color with this approach, cards like these mana-fixing creatures are excellent picks which produce all five colors. Another card, this powerful dryad lets you play one extra land per turn as well as transforms all of your lands into every basic land type. It's also worth trying for example the enchantment A Realm Reborn, costing six mana grants all of your permanents the power to tap and generate any color mana — even all creatures under your control.

Badgermole Cub might seem overpowered regarding accelerating your resources, yet what’s the endgame finisher with this archetype? An often-seen solution is Ashaya, Soul of the Wild. Its power and toughness match how many lands you have, and it changes all of your nontoken creatures into Forests in addition to other subtypes. In other words, each creature in play may tap for two G if used for mana.

This additional option is a costly, large threat that benefits from lots of lands (similar to Ashaya, its power and toughness match your land total).

Nissa, Who Shakes the World works perfectly as a go-to Planeswalker. Her static effect causes Forest lands tap for one more G. (Combined with earthbend, that means those lands generate three green mana.) Her main ability is essentially a form of land animation, adding counters to a noncreature land, a useful effect though it doesn't stack with earthbend. The minus ability, on the other hand, grants each land you control indestructible and allows you to put onto the battlefield all the remaining forests in the deck. Once you trigger this power, this typically means you win.

This card is pretty much essential in any decks using green and Avatar focusing on Earthbending. When branching into Gruul colors, there’s Bumi. It possesses earthbend 4, plus if he deals combat damage to a player, each animated land are ready again for another attack. While that version has emerged as a popular Commander choice, this small creature is set to be one of the most, maybe the sought-after card in the collaboration.