Manlands improved

Format: Commander

Commander: Toph, Greatest Earthbender

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 35

Deck overview

This deck is a Gruul lands-matter aggro deck led by Toph, Greatest Earthbender. The strategy accelerates mana on early turns with efficient land ramp, then casts Toph on Turn 4 to convert mana spent into a large, hasty land creature. Toph grants all land creatures double strike, doubling the combat value of every earthbent land and mass-animation spell. On Turn 5, the deck transitions into critical pressure by deploying mass animation like Sylvan Awakening, extra combat triggers from Bumi, Unleashed, or anthem buffs from Kamahl, Heart of Krosa. Earthbend mechanics provide resilience against board wipes by returning killed land creatures tapped to the battlefield. The deck wins by attacking for high combat damage across multiple rotations, using power-based draw spells to maintain resources and targeted protection spells to keep key threats alive.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Abrade
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Ba Sing Se
• 1 Beast Within
• 1 Bitter Work
• 1 Blasphemous Act
• 1 Blossoming Tortoise
• 1 Bumi, Eclectic Earthbender
• 1 Bumi, Unleashed
• 1 Cascading Cataracts
• 1 Chandra's Ignition
• 1 Chaos Warp
• 1 Cinder Glade
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Conduit of Worlds
• 1 Crawling Barrens
• 1 Cultivate
• 1 Darksteel Citadel
• 1 Decimate
• 1 Druid Class
• 1 Earth Rumble
• 1 Earthbender Ascension
• 1 Elemental Bond
• 1 Embodiment of Insight
• 1 Emergent Sequence
• 1 Evolving Wilds
• 1 Fabled Passage
• 1 Farseek
• 19 Forest
• 1 Game Trail
• 1 Garruk's Uprising
• 1 Gruul Turf
• 1 Heroic Intervention
• 1 Inkmoth Nexus
• 1 Inspiring Call
• 1 Kamahl's Will
• 1 Kamahl, Heart of Krosa
• 1 Karplusan Forest
• 1 Kessig Wolf Run
• 1 Kodama's Reach
• 1 Liege of the Tangle
• 1 Llanowar Loamspeaker
• 1 Mossfire Valley
• 7 Mountain
• 1 Myriad Landscape
• 1 Nature's Claim
• 1 Nature's Lore
• 1 Nissa, Vital Force
• 1 Nissa, Who Shakes the World
• 1 Ram Through
• 1 Rampant Growth
• 1 Ramunap Excavator
• 1 Return of the Wildspeaker
• 1 Rishkar's Expertise
• 1 Roaring Earth
• 1 Rockfall Vale
• 1 Rogue's Passage
• 1 Rootbound Crag
• 1 Shamanic Revelation
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Splendid Reclamation
• 1 Sylvan Advocate
• 1 Sylvan Awakening
• 1 Tamiyo's Safekeeping
• 1 Terramorphic Expanse
• 1 The Legend of Kyoshi // Avatar Kyoshi
• 1 Three Visits
• 1 Tireless Tracker
• 1 Titania, Protector of Argoth
• 1 Toph, Greatest Earthbender
• 1 Toph, Hardheaded Teacher
• 1 Toph, the Blind Bandit
• 1 Tyvar's Stand
• 1 Wrap in Vigor
• 1 Wrenn and Realmbreaker
• 1 Yedora, Grave Gardener