Metal Bending! by tylermanhart

Format: Commander

Commander: Toph, the First Metalbender

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 29

Deck overview

This deck is a Naya aggro strategy centered on Toph, the First Metalbender. It turns nontoken artifacts into lands and animates lands into resilient 0/0 creatures with +1/+1 counters and haste. Because earthbent lands return to the battlefield tapped whenever they die or are exiled, the deck possesses exceptional natural resilience against conventional creature board wipes. The game plan focuses on deploying early ramp to cast Toph on Turn 4, steadily growing an army of land creatures, and enhancing them with +1/+1 counter doublers like Hardened Scales and Doubling Season. The deck transitions into a lethal clock around Turn 6 using combat powerhouses like Bumi, Unleashed, Toph, Greatest Earthbender, and Craterhoof Behemoth, or direct damage triggers from Shalai and Hallar. While it lacks stack-based countermagic and high-density creature tutors, its compounding board presence and unique recovery mechanics make it a formidable mid-game combat threat.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Agent Bishop, Man in Black
• 1 Amulet of Vigor
• 1 Annie Joins Up
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Arcbound Ravager
• 1 Ba Sing Se
• 1 Badgermole
• 1 Badgermole Cub
• 1 Basilica Skullbomb
• 1 Brion Stoutarm
• 1 Bumi, Eclectic Earthbender
• 1 Bumi, Unleashed
• 1 Byrke, Long Ear of the Law
• 1 Casey Jones, Back Alley Brute
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
• 1 Creosote Heath
• 1 Crop Rotation
• 1 Darksteel Relic
• 1 Doubling Season
• 1 Earthbender Ascension
• 1 Earthshape
• 1 Emergency Eject
• 1 Evolution Sage
• 1 Exploration Broodship
• 1 Fling
• 10 Forest
• 1 Forgotten Ancient
• 1 Fortified Village
• 1 Furycalm Snarl
• 1 Garruk Wildspeaker
• 1 Good-Fortune Unicorn
• 1 Great Furnace
• 1 Hardened Scales
• 1 Howling Mine
• 1 Ichor Wellspring
• 1 Kyoshi Village
• 1 Liquimetal Torque
• 1 Lotus Cobra
• 1 Michelangelo, Weirdness to 11
• 1 Mossborn Hydra
• 6 Mountain
• 1 Nutrient Block
• 1 Origin of Metalbending
• 1 Oswald Fiddlebender
• 1 Overgrown Farmland
• 1 Path to Exile
• 7 Plains
• 1 Radagast of Rhosgobel
• 1 Raggadragga, Goreguts Boss
• 1 Raph & Leo, Sibling Rivals
• 1 Reaver Titan
• 1 Reluctant Role Model
• 1 Rootbound Crag
• 1 Rumble Arena
• 1 Sandbenders' Storm
• 1 Seedborn Muse
• 1 Shadowspear
• 1 Shalai and Hallar
• 1 Sheltering Landscape
• 1 Slagwoods Bridge
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Sunpetal Grove
• 1 Surge Conductor
• 1 Swiftfoot Boots
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Technodrome
• 1 Temple of Plenty
• 1 Terrasymbiosis
• 1 The Legend of Kyoshi // Avatar Kyoshi
• 1 Toph, Earthbending Master
• 1 Toph, Greatest Earthbender
• 1 Toph, the Blind Bandit
• 1 Toph, the First Metalbender
• 1 Trouble in Pairs
• 1 Voltaic Key
• 1 Waves of Aggression
• 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
• 1 Zanarkand, Ancient Metropolis // Lasting Fayth
• 1 Zuran Orb