Toph by cateperson

Format: Commander

Commander: Toph, the First Metalbender

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This is a Naya "earthbend" land-creature deck built around Toph, the First Metalbender. The commander turns nontoken artifacts into lands, so mana rocks like Sol Ring, Arcane Signet, and Bender's Waterskin become legal targets for earthbend, while her end-step trigger steadily creates 2/2 land attackers. The deck pairs that with a dense package of earthbend spells and creatures - Bumi, Unleashed, Avatar Kyoshi, Earthbender, and The Boulder, Ready to Rumble - to assemble an army of hasty, hard-to-permanently-kill animated lands. Wins come from repeated extra-combat attacks with land creatures, plus landfall payoffs like Scute Swarm and Mossborn Hydra, and backup token pressure from Titan Forge and Awakening Zone. It is a grindy, board-centric strategy: slow to set up, but able to rebuild through wraths better than its average mana value suggests.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Avatar Kyoshi, Earthbender
• 1 Awakening Zone
• 1 Ba Sing Se
• 1 Barrels of Blasting Jelly
• 1 Bender's Waterskin
• 1 Bitter Work
• 1 Borderland Ranger
• 1 Bumi, Unleashed
• 1 Bushwhack
• 1 Commune with Beavers
• 1 Crime Novelist
• 1 Crossroads Village
• 1 Cryptic Spires
• 1 Crystalline Armor
• 1 Cycle of Renewal
• 1 Earth Kingdom General
• 1 Earth Rumble
• 1 Earthbending Lesson
• 1 Earthshape
• 1 Enraged Flamecaster
• 1 Explosive Shot
• 1 Fire Nation Palace
• 1 Fledgling Dragon
• 1 Flopsie, Bumi's Buddy
• 8 Forest
• 1 Fumigate
• 1 Gamble
• 1 Goliath Daydreamer
• 1 Great Divide Guide
• 1 Haru, Hidden Talent
• 1 Icetill Explorer
• 1 Idol of Oblivion
• 1 Kyoshi Village
• 1 Lhurgoyf
• 1 Life Goes On
• 1 Lightning Strike
• 1 Mossborn Hydra
• 7 Mountain
• 1 Nightshade Dryad
• 1 Omashu City
• 1 Origin of Metalbending
• 1 Pacifism
• 1 Phoenix Down
• 1 Pillar Launch
• 7 Plains
• 1 Price of Freedom
• 1 Rabanastre, Royal City
• 1 Redirect Lightning
• 1 Rhonas's Monument
• 1 Ride the Shoopuf
• 1 Rockalanche
• 1 Rugged Prairie
• 1 Rumble Arena
• 1 Sabotender
• 1 Savage Mansion
• 1 Scute Swarm
• 1 Seismic Sense
• 1 Shared Roots
• 1 Shimmerwilds Growth
• 1 Shivan Devastator
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
• 1 Spinerock Tyrant
• 1 Sun-Blessed Peak
• 1 Sundown Pass
• 1 Tend the Sprigs
• 1 Terramorphic Expanse
• 1 The Boulder, Ready to Rumble
• 1 The Cave of Two Lovers
• 1 The Earth Crystal
• 1 The Earth King
• 1 The Weatherseed Treaty
• 1 Titan Forge
• 1 Toph, Hardheaded Teacher
• 1 Toph, the Blind Bandit
• 1 Toph, the First Metalbender
• 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
• 1 Windurst, Federation Center
• 1 Winter Moon
• 1 World Map