Earthen Arms
- Mana cost
- {1}{G}
- Type
- Sorcery
- Set
- The List #BFZ-172 (common)
- Price
- $0.33 USD
Put two +1/+1 counters on target permanent.
Awaken 4—{6}{G} (If you cast this spell for {6}{G}, also put four +1/+1 counters on target land you control and it becomes a 0/0 Elemental creature with haste. It's still a land.)
Earthen Arms has 2 printings, first in Battle for Zendikar (2015). EDHREC ranks it #22,219 among Commander cards. It appears most in Jyoti, Moag Ancient decks (133 on EDHREC). It has 8 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: not legal
Commanders that run Earthen Arms most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Jyoti, Moag Ancient: 133 decks
- Toph, the Blind Bandit: 24 decks
- Lord Magnus: 2 decks
- Ezekiel Sims, Spider-Totem: 1 decks
- Bumi, Eclectic Earthbender
Often played with Earthen Arms
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : If you cast Earthen Arms for its awaken cost, a land you control can be both targets.
- : You can cast a spell with awaken for its mana cost and get only its first effect. If you cast a spell for its awaken cost, you’ll get both effects.
- : If a spell with awaken has multiple targets (including the land you control), and some but not all of those targets become illegal by the time the spell tries to resolve, the spell won’t affect the illegal targets in any way.
- : If the non-awaken part of the spell requires a target, you must choose a legal target. You can’t cast the spell if you can’t choose a legal target for each instance of the word “target” (though you only need a legal target for the awaken ability if you’re casting the spell for its awaken cost).
- : Awaken 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.
- : 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}.
- : If the non-awaken part of the spell doesn’t require a target and you cast the spell for its awaken cost, then the spell won’t resolve if the target land you control becomes illegal before the spell resolves (such as due to being destroyed in response to the spell being cast).
- : Any permanent can have a +1/+1 counter put on it. Those counters won’t have any effect unless that permanent is or becomes a creature.