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Bumi, King of Three Trials

Bumi, King of Three Trials

Legendary Creature — Human Noble Ally

Bumi wants a deck that fills its discard pile and plays cards back out of it. It also works in a deck built around Allies, Humans or Nobles.

  • Mana cost5 genericgreen
  • Green ()
  • Power / toughness4 / 4
  • RarityUncommon

When Bumi enters, choose up to X, where X is the number of Lesson cards in your graveyard —

• Put three +1/+1 counters on Bumi.

• Target player scries 3.

• Earthbend 3. (Target land you control becomes a 0/0 creature with haste that's still a land. Put three +1/+1 counters on it. When it dies or is exiled, return it to the battlefield tapped.)

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Cards That Fit Bumi, King of Three Trials

Picked for what they do in Bumi's deck. When two cards do the same job, the one with the lower comes first. All of them fit Bumi's color identity.Mana ValueThe total amount of mana a card costs, all added up. A card costing two generic and one green has a mana value of three. Wizards renamed this from "converted mana cost" in 2021, so older cards and articles may still use the old name.Sol RingOpen the full glossary

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Rulings for Bumi, King of Three Trials

explain how Bumi works in tricky situations. They come from Wizards of the Coast, the company that makes Magic.RulingThe official answer to how a card works in a tricky situation. Most rulings are written by Wizards of the Coast, the company that makes Magic, and a few are notes from Scryfall, the card database Magic players use. A ruling explains a card. It does not change what the card says.Open the full glossary

Wizards of the Coast 2 Oct 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."

Wizards of the Coast 2 Oct 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.

Wizards of the Coast 2 Oct 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.

Wizards of the Coast 2 Oct 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.

Wizards of the Coast 2 Oct 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}.

Wizards of the Coast 2 Oct 2025

You can't choose the same mode of Bumi, King of Three Trials's triggered ability more than once. As there are only three modes, even if X is greater than three, you won't get additional effects after choosing each mode once.

Wizards of the Coast 2 Oct 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.

7 rulings, all written by Wizards of the Coast. Read the originals on Gatherer ↗

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Color identityEvery color of mana symbol on a card, in its cost and in its rules text. Your commander's color identity sets the limit for your whole deck: every other card has to fit inside it. A deck led by a green and white commander cannot play a card with any blue in its color identity.Open the full glossaryGPlayers write colors as letters: G for green.Graveyard/Self-MillGraveyard decks fill their own graveyard on purpose, then play cards from it as if it were a second hand. Moving cards from the top of your own deck straight into the graveyard is called self-mill.Open the Graveyard/Self-Mill pageGraveyard PayoffRewards you for having cards in your graveyard, or uses them straight from there. Your graveyard is normally where cards go once they are finished with; these turn it into a second hand, and the fuller it is the better they get. Golgari Grave-Troll, SplinterfrightOpen the Graveyard Payoff pageLand AnimationTurns your lands into creatures. That gives you extra attackers without spending extra cards, and a manland, a land that can become a creature, is safe as a land the rest of the time, though a board wipe can catch it while it is a creature. Nissa, Who Shakes the WorldOpen the Land Animation page+1/+1 CountersPuts +1/+1 counters on creatures, permanently raising their power and toughness. Unlike a temporary boost that wears off at end of turn, these markers stay put and stack up over a long game. Hardened Scales, The Great HengeOpen the +1/+1 Counters page