Earthbending by Ricecream

Format: Commander

Commander: Toph, the First Metalbender

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 32

Deck overview

This Naya deck utilizes Toph, the First Metalbender to turn non-token artifacts into lands and continuously animate lands via earthbending. The engine produces resilient, hasty creature-lands that return to the battlefield tapped if destroyed or exiled. Early turns prioritize efficient mana acceleration to establish Toph on turn 4, immediately generating growing beaters. The midgame compounds this advantage through counter multipliers like Solid Ground and Annie Joins Up, alongside combat enablers such as Bumi, Unleashed and Avatar Kyoshi. While the deck possesses built-in recovery against board wipes through land reanimation triggers, it relies primarily on combat damage to eliminate opponents across turns 6 to 8. The interaction package focuses on efficient creature removal and sweepers, while card advantage is sustained through land-based synergy engines.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Abandoned Air Temple
• 1 Annie Joins Up
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Avatar Kyoshi, Earthbender
• 1 Avatar's Wrath
• 1 Avenger of Zendikar
• 1 Ba Sing Se
• 1 Badgermole
• 1 Badgermole Cub
• 1 Battlefield Forge
• 1 Bender's Waterskin
• 1 Birds of Paradise
• 1 Brushland
• 1 Bumi, Unleashed
• 1 Buried Ruin
• 1 Canopy Vista
• 1 Clifftop Retreat
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Commander's Sphere
• 1 Cultivate
• 1 Cycle of Renewal
• 1 Darksteel Citadel
• 1 Earth Kingdom Soldier
• 1 Earthbender Ascension
• 1 Earthbending Lesson
• 1 Enter the Avatar State
• 1 Evolution Sage
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Explore
• 1 Farseek
• 1 Felidar Retreat
• 1 Fellwar Stone
• 1 Flopsie, Bumi's Buddy
• 6 Forest
• 1 Gamble
• 1 Great Divide Guide
• 1 Great Furnace
• 1 Heroic Intervention
• 1 Ichor Wellspring
• 1 Karn's Bastion
• 1 Khalni Heart Expedition
• 1 Liquimetal Coating
• 1 Lotus Cobra
• 1 Lotus Field
• 1 Mind Stone
• 1 Mishra's Bauble
• 1 Panharmonicon
• 1 Path to Redemption
• 4 Plains
• 1 Prismatic Omen
• 1 Promise of Loyalty
• 1 Pull Through the Weft
• 1 Rabaroo Troop
• 1 Raucous Audience
• 1 Razorverge Thicket
• 1 Reliquary Tower
• 1 Rishkar, Peema Renegade
• 1 Rockalanche
• 1 Rugged Prairie
• 1 Rumble Arena
• 1 Rustvale Bridge
• 1 Secret Tunnel
• 1 Seismic Sense
• 1 Shared Roots
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Solid Ground
• 1 Spore Frog
• 1 Steel Overseer
• 1 Stomping Ground
• 1 Sunpetal Grove
• 1 Swiftfoot Boots
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Tale of Katara and Toph
• 1 Tannuk, Memorial Ensign
• 1 Temple of Plenty
• 1 Temple of the False God
• 1 Terrasymbiosis
• 1 That's Rough Buddy
• 1 The Boulder, Ready to Rumble
• 1 The Earth King
• 1 The Legend of Kyoshi // Avatar Kyoshi
• 1 The Walls of Ba Sing Se
• 1 Thriving Grove
• 1 Thriving Heath
• 1 Toph, Hardheaded Teacher
• 1 Toph, the Blind Bandit
• 1 Toph, the First Metalbender
• 1 Unlucky Cabbage Merchant
• 1 Windswept Heath
• 1 Wrenn and Realmbreaker
• 1 Zendikar Incarnate
• 1 Zuran Orb