So The Walls of Ba Sing Se is Kind of Cute, Isn’t It?

The Walls of Ba Sing Se

• The Walls of Ba Sing Se 8
• Legendary Artifact Creature – Wall
• Defender
  Other permanents you control have indestructible.
• 0/30

To be fair, this is kind of a cute and clever card. Like, when was the last time you saw a card with thirty toughness? That’s not nothing, right? Well…

For eight mana?

And it’s not even indestructible itself? It’s not like people are bouncing your permanents… or airbending… or…

No, No… Not “The Walls of…”

Ba Sing Se

Here is a card that Mike likes much more than the 30-toughness Wall:

• Ba Sing Se
• Land
• This land enters tapped unless you control a basic land.{T}: Add {G}.{2}{G}, {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.)

This land is pretty cool, right? In a Mono-Green Landfall deck, it might not have any disadvantage at all! Earthbend 2 might provide multiple forms of utility to a deck that already has Evolving Wilds and Fabled Passage. Like, if you topdeck a land (especially if you have, say, a Traveling Chokobo in play) you can Ramp. But what Mike likes about it even more than many other great Constructed quality lands is that if you don’t have your creature suite online, Ba Sing Se can help provide offense.

But Is Ba Sing Se the Best Colorless Card in ATLA?

Abandoned Air Temple

• Abandoned Air Temple
• Land
• This land enters tapped unless you control a basic land.{T}: Add {W}.{3}{W}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.

Abandoned Air Temple operates much like a Gavony Township that can tap for white mana (and doesn’t require green mana to activate). So it might make sense in the traditional green Ramp / land searching decks where this kind of a card has alway thrived… But we bet it will be good in other White Weenie-type decks, u-w Tempo, and so on.

All-in-all the colorless cards and artifacts from Avatar: The Last Airbender are kind of blah, but the nonbasic lands absolutely rock and make up for the cohort.

Check out what we have to say about all the colorless cards here: