The Melon Lord! by AmeizingGuy

Format: Commander

Creator: AmeizingGuy

Commander: Toph, the First Metalbender

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 35

Deck overview

This deck is a Naya Landfall and +1/+1 counter aggro strategy led by Toph, the First Metalbender. The primary game plan revolves around accelerating mana early with dense 2-CMC ramp, deploying Toph on Turn 3, and continuously turning lands and nontoken artifacts into hasty, resilient attackers via the earthbend mechanic. When an earthbent land dies or is exiled, it returns to the battlefield tapped, granting extraordinary wipe insurance that actually ramps the deck when swept. Mid-to-late turns capitalize on redundant landfall payoffs like Omnath, Locus of Rage, Moraug, Fury of Akoum, and Scute Swarm to overrun the table through multiple combat steps and token swarms. While the deck lacks stack-based countermagic and relies on natural draws to find high-end finishers, its overwhelming land volume and self-recovering board state provide relentless mid-game momentum.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abandoned Air Temple
  • 1 Ancient Greenwarden
  • 1 Annie Joins Up
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashaya, Soul of the Wild
  • 1 Azusa, Lost but Seeking
  • 1 Ba Sing Se
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Bitter Work
  • 1 Brightglass Gearhulk
  • 1 Bumi, Unleashed
  • 1 Buried Ruin
  • 1 Canopy Vista
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conduit of Worlds
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Dancing from Dark to Dawn
  • 1 Darksteel Citadel
  • 1 Dawn's Truce
  • 1 Disciple of Freyalise // Garden of Freyalise
  • 1 Earthbender Ascension
  • 1 Emeria Angel
  • 1 Emeria Shepherd
  • 1 Escape Tunnel
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Expedition Map
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Felidar Retreat
  • 1 Field of the Dead
  • 10 Forest
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Great Divide Guide
  • 1 Haywire Mite
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Ichor Wellspring
  • 1 Jetmir's Garden
  • 1 Koth, the Geomancer
  • 1 Kutzil, Malamet Exemplar
  • 1 Lotus Cobra
  • 1 Marwyn, the Clearcutter
  • 1 Marwyn, the Preserver
  • 1 Mishra's Bauble
  • 1 Mole Man, Moloid Master
  • 1 Moraug, Fury of Akoum
  • 1 Mountain
  • 1 Omnath, Locus of Rage
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Perilous Forays
  • 1 Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak
  • 1 Plains
  • 1 Radiant Summit
  • 1 Rampaging Baloths
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Rockfall Vale
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Rumble Arena
  • 1 Sabotender
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Shared Roots
  • 1 Snow-Covered Forest
  • 1 Snow-Covered Mountain
  • 1 Snow-Covered Plains
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Solid Ground
  • 1 Spelunking
  • 1 Spitfire Lagac
  • 1 Springheart Nantuko
  • 1 Sundown Pass
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tannuk, Memorial Ensign
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Boulder, Ready to Rumble
  • 1 The Stasis Coffin
  • 1 Tireless Provisioner
  • 1 Toph, the Blind Bandit
  • 1 Toph, the First Metalbender
  • 1 Tormod's Crypt
  • 1 Triumph of the Hordes
  • 1 Tunneling Geopede
  • 1 Vexing Bauble
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Winds of Abandon
  • 1 Witch Enchanter // Witch-Blessed Meadow
  • 1 Zuran Orb