Toph, The First Metalbender V2

Format: Commander

Commander: Toph, the First Metalbender

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 41

Deck overview

Toph, the First Metalbender leads a Naya aggro-midrange deck that bridges land-creature animation, artifact synergy, and +1/+1 counter scaling. By converting nontoken artifacts into lands and triggering earthbend on every end step, Toph turns mana rocks, utility artifacts, and basic lands into recursive, hasty attackers that return to the battlefield tapped if destroyed or exiled. The deck accelerates through a dense 1–2 CMC ramp suite to deploy Toph on Turn 3 or 4, quickly multiplying counters with amplifiers like Hardened Scales and Branching Evolution. Combat dominance is secured via trample and flying enablers such as Duskshell Crawler and Abzan Falconer, while powerhouse threats like Bumi, Unleashed and Mossborn Hydra deliver explosive mid-game pressure. Robust instant-speed protection like Heroic Intervention shields key engines from targeted removal, while the inherent recursion of earthbent lands makes board wipes remarkably asymmetric in your favor.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abandoned Air Temple
  • 1 Abundant Growth
  • 1 Abzan Falconer
  • 1 Aftermath Analyst
  • 1 Ajani, Nacatl Pariah // Ajani, Nacatl Avenger
  • 1 Alibou, Ancient Witness
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ba Sing Se
  • 1 Badgermole Cub
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Bitter Work
  • 1 Branching Evolution
  • 1 Bumi, Unleashed
  • 1 Case of the Locked Hothouse
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Clifftop Retreat
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Duskshell Crawler
  • 1 Duty Beyond Death
  • 1 Earthbender Ascension
  • 1 Elvish Archivist
  • 1 Emerald Medallion
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Evolution Sage
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Explore
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 9 Forest
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Gnarlid Colony
  • 1 Great Train Heist
  • 1 Hardened Scales
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Inspiring Call
  • 1 Inti, Seneschal of the Sun
  • 1 Karn's Bastion
  • 1 Laelia, the Blade Reforged
  • 1 Lair of the Hydra
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Liquimetal Coating
  • 1 Lumra, Bellow of the Woods
  • 1 Lux Artillery
  • 1 Michelangelo, Weirdness to 11
  • 1 Mikey & Leo, Chaos & Order
  • 1 Moonsilver Key
  • 1 Mossborn Hydra
  • 4 Mountain
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Obscuring Haze
  • 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
  • 1 Oswald Fiddlebender
  • 1 Overgrown Farmland
  • 1 Overprotect
  • 1 Parting Gust
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Reckless Handling
  • 1 Regrowth
  • 1 Requisition Raid
  • 1 Resourceful Defense
  • 1 Restless Prairie
  • 1 Return the Favor
  • 1 Rugged Prairie
  • 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
  • 1 Sheltering Landscape
  • 1 Shifting Woodland
  • 1 Six
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Springheart Nantuko
  • 1 Surge of Salvation
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Sylvan Advocate
  • 1 Tender Wildguide
  • 1 The Grey Havens
  • 1 Tomik, Distinguished Advokist
  • 1 Toph, Earthbending Master
  • 1 Toph, the Blind Bandit
  • 1 Toph, the First Metalbender
  • 1 Tyvar's Stand
  • 1 Unnatural Restoration
  • 1 Vexing Bauble
  • 1 Wild Growth
  • 1 Wilderness Reclamation
  • 1 Wooded Foothills