Toph Budget Bender by aloemiki

Format: Commander

Commander: Toph, the First Metalbender

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 39

Deck overview

This deck is a Naya Lands and Earthbending strategy commanded by Toph, the First Metalbender. It leverages cheap ramp to deploy Toph on Turn 3 or 4, turning lands and non-token artifacts into resilient, recursive creature threats. The deck scales into mid-game dominance using potent landfall engines such as Omnath, Locus of Rage, Scute Swarm, and Felidar Retreat, alongside +1/+1 counter multipliers like The Earth Crystal and Loading Zone. Combat is accelerated through Bumi, Unleashed for extra attack steps and Toph, Greatest Earthbender for table-wide double strike on land creatures. Built-in recursion on earthbent lands provides natural insulation against board wipes, while cards like Clever Concealment and Kutzil, Malamet Exemplar safeguard big turns. The deck closes games reliably by Turn 7 via overwhelming trample and double-strike combat damage.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Airbending Lesson
• 1 Annie Joins Up
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Ashaya, Soul of the Wild
• 1 Azusa, Lost but Seeking
• 1 Ba Sing Se
• 1 Badgermole
• 1 Bender's Waterskin
• 1 Berserk
• 1 Bitter Work
• 1 Brushland
• 1 Bumi, Unleashed
• 1 Canopy Vista
• 1 Champion's Helm
• 1 Chromatic Lantern
• 1 Cinder Glade
• 1 Clever Concealment
• 1 Clifftop Retreat
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Commander's Sphere
• 1 Constant Mists
• 1 Cosmic Cube
• 1 Crop Rotation
• 1 Cultivate
• 1 Cycle of Renewal
• 1 Earthbender Ascension
• 1 Earthshape
• 1 Eladamri's Call
• 1 Evolution Sage
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Felidar Retreat
• 1 Finale of Devastation
• 7 Forest
• 1 Fortified Village
• 1 Great Divide Guide
• 1 Hunter's Insight
• 1 Ichor Wellspring
• 1 Ka-Zar of the Savage Land
• 1 Kodama of the East Tree
• 1 Kutzil, Malamet Exemplar
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 1 Liquimetal Torque
• 1 Llanowar Elves
• 1 Loading Zone
• 1 Lotus Cobra
• 1 Lotus Field
• 1 Mind Stone
• 4 Mountain
• 1 Nature's Lore
• 1 Nissa, Who Shakes the World
• 1 Omnath, Locus of Rage
• 1 Origin of Metalbending
• 4 Plains
• 1 Planar Engineering
• 1 Quirion Ranger
• 1 Rampant Growth
• 1 Resourceful Defense
• 1 Return of the Wildspeaker
• 1 Rootbound Crag
• 1 Rugged Prairie
• 1 Sabotender
• 1 Sculpting Steel
• 1 Scute Swarm
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Springheart Nantuko
• 1 Sungrass Prairie
• 1 Sunpetal Grove
• 1 Sword of the Animist
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Tale of Katara and Toph
• 1 Tannuk, Memorial Ensign
• 1 Terrasymbiosis
• 1 The Arkenstone // Seek the Heart
• 1 The Earth Crystal
• 1 The Earth King
• 1 The Legend of Kyoshi // Avatar Kyoshi
• 1 Tireless Provisioner
• 1 Tireless Tracker
• 1 Titania, Protector of Argoth
• 1 Toph, Greatest Earthbender
• 1 Toph, Hardheaded Teacher
• 1 Toph, the First Metalbender
• 1 Traveling Chocobo
• 1 Vibrant Cityscape
• 1 Walking Ballista
• 1 Wilderness Reclamation
• 1 Wrenn and Realmbreaker
• 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth