One of Avatar's most charming Magic cards proves to be a nasty small contender.

Magic: The Gathering’s collaboration with Avatar isn't set to get a wider release until later this week, but following prerelease weekends over the last few days, an affordable green creature experienced a surge in market worth.

From the initial reveals, Badgermole Cub garnered a lot of attention. This two-power, two-toughness that costs G and 1 mana, the card features the Earthbend 1 ability (possibly the strongest of the set’s four “bending” mechanics). Its key advantage with this card is another power: If mana is generated by tapping a creature, you gain one extra green mana.

At its cheapest, the card sold at around $27. After the pre-release weekend, however, the going rate jumped above $45 and one seller offering priced at sixty dollars. The reason for Vivi prices on this adorable card? Mainly thanks to the explosive mana ramping it can produce.

When it arrives play, the cub converts one land into a creature with earthbend. And with that second ability, if it is not removed, every earthbent land yields two mana instead of one — along with any creatures in your control which tap for mana.

The obvious go-to for maximum effect includes Llanowar Elves, an inexpensive 1/1 which can be tapped for G mana. However numerous creatures that make mana in the game. This particular druid is a higher-cost choice with stats 1/3 costing two mana in comparison.

Using land cards, creatures that tap for mana, plus the cub, you can easily get a very big and very expensive threat into play early in the game. And things just keep spiraling out of control if you keep the pressure on from there.

When adding another color using this method, examples including versatile mana producers are excellent picks that can make any mana color. Another card, Dryad of the Ilysian Grove enables playing an additional land each turn plus makes your entire land base providing all land types. Another possibility is for example a card called A Realm Reborn, at a six-mana investment provides each permanent you control the power to be tapped for one mana of any color — which covers all creatures you have on the board.

Badgermole Cub may be OP when it comes to accelerating your resources, however what closes out the game in such a strategy? An often-seen solution is Ashaya, Soul of the Wild. Its power and toughness are set by how many lands you have, plus it turns all of your nontoken creatures Forests along with their original types. This means, each creature in play may produce double green when tapped.

This additional option is a costly, large threat that thrives with a high land count (similar to Ashaya, P/T are based on the number of lands you control).

Nissa, Who Shakes the World fits really well as a go-to Planeswalker. One of her abilities allows every Forest tap for one more G. (Combined with earthbend, that means all earthbend forests generate three green mana.) One loyalty ability functions like a proto-earthbend, placing counters on terrain, handy but it isn't redundant with earthbend. Her ultimate, though, makes each land you control indestructible enabling you to search for all the remaining forests from your library. Should you manage to use this power, it almost certainly the game ends.

Badgermole Cub is pretty much essential in any green Avatar deck that use Earthbending. When branching into red and green, you can use Bumi. This card features earthbend 4, plus if damage is dealt to an opponent, all land creatures become untapped for another attack. Although this card is a fan favorite Commander, the cute little Badgermole Cub is set to be one of the most, maybe the desired card in the Avatar set.