Ba Sing Se
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
This land enters tapped unless you control a basic land.
T: Add .
2, T: Earthbend 2. Activate only as a sorcery. (Target land you control becomes a 0/0 creature with haste that's still a land. Put two +1/+1 counters on it. When it dies or is exiled, return it to the battlefield tapped.)
Combos with Ba Sing Se
Lines this card is part of — what it needs alongside it, and what the two of them do. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.
- Ashnod's Altar Lotus Cobra Spelunking Infinite
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite landfall triggers
- Infinite card draw
- Infinite draw triggers
- Phyrexian Altar Stone-Seeder Hierophant Zirda, the Dawnwaker Infinite
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite landfall triggers
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Toph, the First Metalbender Aeon Engine Wilderness Reclamation Infinite
- Lock
- Locks out all of your opponents but one, and allows you to choose which of your two neighboring opponents get to have turns
- Ashnod's Altar Amulet of Vigor Lotus Cobra Infinite
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite landfall triggers
Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.
Rulings
7 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 .
- 2025-10-02
If one of these lands enters at the same time as any number of basic lands, those other lands are not counted when determining if this land enters tapped or untapped.
- 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.
- 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."
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Ba Sing Se, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kellan, the Kid | 1 | 0 | — |
| Raph & Mikey, Troublemakers | 1 | 0 | — |
| Toph, Hardheaded Teacher | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Gruul 2 decks
- Bant 1 deck
Every version of Ba Sing Se
3 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly — a printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall genuinely publishes none for some of them.
- Normal
- $4.94
- Foil
- $5.59
Promo
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- Foil
- $11.99
Extended Art
- Normal
- $7.35
- Foil
- $6.95
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Ba Sing Se — a name search across every version, for the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.
Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only — no individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.