Toph by vinimii

Format: Commander

Commander: Toph, the First Metalbender

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 35

Deck overview

This deck is an Artifact-Landfall Midrange strategy helmed by Toph, the First Metalbender. Toph converts all nontoken artifacts into lands and animates lands into recurring 2/2 creatures through her end-step earthbend ability. By blending cheap utility artifacts with traditional Naya landfall engines, the deck turns artifact deployments, sacrifices, and earthbend death triggers into continuous land enters-the-battlefield triggers. The primary game plan ramps through the early turns, deploys Toph on Turn 4, and follows up on Turn 6 with game-ending token generators like Titania, Protector of Argoth, Omnath, Locus of Rage, and Field of the Dead. Sacrificing earthbent artifacts to Zuran Orb or Claws of Gix allows them to die, trigger payoffs, and immediately return to the battlefield tapped. While the deck boasts high engine resilience and strong card flow, its reactive interaction is heavily slanted toward artifact and graveyard hate, leaving it vulnerable to opposing creature-based combos and flying combat threats.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 All-Fates Scroll
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ba Sing Se
  • 1 Blossoming Tortoise
  • 1 Boros Garrison
  • 1 Boros Signet
  • 1 Brightglass Gearhulk
  • 1 Canopy Vista
  • 1 Chocobo Racetrack
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Claim the Kingdom
  • 1 Claws of Gix
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Commune with Beavers
  • 1 Conduit of Worlds
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Demand Answers
  • 1 Devastating Onslaught
  • 1 Disciple of Freyalise // Garden of Freyalise
  • 1 Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Evendo Brushrazer
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Felidar Retreat
  • 1 Field of the Dead
  • 1 Flagstones of Trokair
  • 3 Forest
  • 1 Foundry Inspector
  • 1 Fountainport Bell
  • 1 Great Divide Guide
  • 1 Green Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Greenhouse // Rickety Gazebo
  • 1 Gruul Signet
  • 1 Harrow
  • 1 Haywire Mite
  • 1 Heaped Harvest
  • 1 Horizon Canopy
  • 1 Ichor Wellspring
  • 1 Ishgard, the Holy See // Faith & Grief
  • 1 Kyoshi Village
  • 1 Larval Scoutlander
  • 1 Lembas
  • 1 Liquimetal Coating
  • 1 Lotus Cobra
  • 1 Meria, Scholar of Antiquity
  • 3 Mountain
  • 1 Obscuring Haze
  • 1 Omashu City
  • 1 Omnath, Locus of Rage
  • 1 Origin of Metalbending
  • 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
  • 1 Oswald Fiddlebender
  • 1 Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Portal to Phyrexia
  • 1 Radiant Summit
  • 1 Ravenous Robots
  • 1 Sabotender
  • 1 Sapling Nursery
  • 1 Sarinth Steelseeker
  • 1 Scene of the Crime
  • 1 Sejiri Steppe
  • 1 Selesnya Sanctuary
  • 1 Sheltered Thicket
  • 1 Sheltering Landscape
  • 1 Snow-Covered Forest
  • 1 Snow-Covered Mountain
  • 1 Snow-Covered Plains
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
  • 1 Spelunking
  • 1 Springheart Nantuko
  • 1 Sun-Blessed Peak
  • 1 Sunbaked Canyon
  • 1 Survey Mechan
  • 1 Tannuk, Memorial Ensign
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Stasis Coffin
  • 1 Tireless Provisioner
  • 1 Tireless Tracker
  • 1 Titania, Protector of Argoth
  • 1 Toph, Hardheaded Teacher
  • 1 Toph, the First Metalbender
  • 1 Tormod's Crypt
  • 1 Urza's Cave
  • 1 Valakut Exploration
  • 1 Vesuva
  • 1 Vibrance
  • 1 Voyager Quickwelder
  • 1 Weapons Manufacturing
  • 1 Weather Maker
  • 1 Wilderness Reclamation
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
  • 1 Zuran Orb