Metal Bending 🪙 by Grizzlegrom

Format: Commander

Commander: Toph, the First Metalbender

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 30

Deck overview

This deck is a synergistic Naya landfall and artifact-land aggro build commanded by Toph, the First Metalbender. Toph provides a unique mechanical bridge between artifacts and lands, turning nontoken artifacts into lands to trigger landfall abilities and animating lands into resilient attackers via earthbend. The primary plan ramps during the opening turns into a Turn 4 commander deployment, followed by explosive Turn 5 payoffs such as Avenger of Zendikar, Rampaging Baloths, or Moraug, Fury of Akoum. Earthbent lands inherently return to the battlefield tapped if destroyed or exiled, offering built-in insurance against board wipes and spot removal. The deck leverages land-based utility and asymmetric sweepers like Hour of Revelation to clear opposing boards while keeping its artifact-lands intact. While it lacks heavy stack interaction and reliable nonland tutors, its mana velocity, broad token production, and persistent recursive threats create overwhelming mid-game combat pressure that steadily closes out the table around Turn 7.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 All-Fates Scroll
  • 1 Amulet of Vigor
  • 1 Annie Joins Up
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Ashaya, Soul of the Wild
  • 1 Avenger of Zendikar
  • 1 Ba Sing Se
  • 1 Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Brightglass Gearhulk
  • 1 Bumi, Unleashed
  • 1 Chocobo Racetrack
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commercial District
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Cycle of Renewal
  • 1 Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
  • 1 Dune Chanter
  • 1 Elegant Parlor
  • 1 Elvish Reclaimer
  • 1 Entish Restoration
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Felidar Retreat
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Field of the Dead
  • 2 Forest
  • 1 Great Divide Guide
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Horn of Greed
  • 1 Hour of Revelation
  • 1 Ichor Wellspring
  • 1 Inkmoth Nexus
  • 1 Jetmir's Garden
  • 1 Jungle Shrine
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Liquimetal Coating
  • 1 Liquimetal Torque
  • 1 Lotus Cobra
  • 1 Lumbering Worldwagon
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Moraug, Fury of Akoum
  • 2 Mountain
  • 1 Mox Opal
  • 1 Mycosynth Wellspring
  • 1 Needle Spires
  • 1 Nissa, Resurgent Animist
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Rampaging Baloths
  • 1 Relic of Progenitus
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Sabotender
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 2 Snow-Covered Forest
  • 2 Snow-Covered Mountain
  • 2 Snow-Covered Plains
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Sunbaked Canyon
  • 1 Sunpetal Grove
  • 1 Survey Mechan
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Talisman of Impulse
  • 1 Talisman of Unity
  • 1 Tannuk, Memorial Ensign
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 Terra Eternal
  • 1 Terrasymbiosis
  • 1 Tezzeret, Cruel Captain
  • 1 The Stasis Coffin
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Tireless Provisioner
  • 1 Titania, Protector of Argoth
  • 1 Toph, Earthbending Master
  • 1 Toph, Greatest Earthbender
  • 1 Toph, Hardheaded Teacher
  • 1 Toph, the First Metalbender
  • 1 Traveling Chocobo
  • 1 Unwinding Clock
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Wrenn and Realmbreaker
  • 1 Yavimaya Hollow
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
  • 1 Zuran Orb