rtij;kj by Stiggs

Format: Commander

Commander: Toph, the First Metalbender

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 42

Deck overview

This deck is an aggressive Naya landfall and counter strategy helmed by Toph, the First Metalbender. Toph turns nontoken artifacts into lands and animates lands into recursive 0/0 creatures with +1/+1 counters and haste through her end-step earthbend ability. Because earthbent lands return to the battlefield tapped if they die or are exiled, the deck possesses natural resilience against sweepers and targeted removal. The early game focuses on fast acceleration through low-cost mana dorks, land-fetch sorceries, and landfall ramp engines like Lotus Cobra and Tireless Provisioner. Once assembled, the deck rapidly compounds board presence using counter multipliers like Bristly Bill, Spine Sower, Innkeeper's Talent, and The Earth Crystal. The endgame closes via explosive combat steps powered by Moraug, Fury of Akoum, Bumi, Unleashed, Toph, Greatest Earthbender, and Craterhoof Behemoth, converting an army of animated, double-striking land creatures into an unstoppable trample alpha strike across all three opponents.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Abandoned Air Temple
• 1 Amulet of Vigor
• 1 Ancient Greenwarden
• 1 Annie Joins Up
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Arid Mesa
• 1 Ashaya, Soul of the Wild
• 1 Ba Sing Se
• 1 Badgermole Cub
• 1 Beast Within
• 1 Birds of Paradise
• 1 Bristly Bill, Spine Sower
• 1 Bumi, Unleashed
• 1 Buried Ruin
• 1 Canopy Vista
• 1 Chaos Warp
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
• 1 Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
• 1 Earthbender Ascension
• 1 Earthshape
• 1 Esper Sentinel
• 1 Evolution Sage
• 1 Exploration Broodship
• 1 Fabled Passage
• 1 Farseek
• 1 Felidar Retreat
• 1 Field of the Dead
• 11 Forest
• 1 Germination Practicum
• 1 Harrow
• 1 Haywire Mite
• 1 Heroic Intervention
• 1 Ichor Wellspring
• 1 Idyllic Tutor
• 1 Inkmoth Nexus
• 1 Innkeeper's Talent
• 1 Kutzil, Malamet Exemplar
• 1 Liquimetal Torque
• 1 Loading Zone
• 1 Loot, Exuberant Explorer
• 1 Lotus Cobra
• 1 Marwyn, the Preserver
• 1 Mikey & Leo, Chaos & Order
• 1 Moraug, Fury of Akoum
• 1 Mossborn Hydra
• 3 Mountain
• 1 Oracle of Mul Daya
• 1 Origin of Metalbending
• 1 Ouroboroid
• 1 Path to Exile
• 1 Peter Parker's Camera
• 4 Plains
• 1 Planar Engineering
• 1 Planar Outburst
• 1 Radiant Summit
• 1 Reliquary Tower
• 1 Rumble Arena
• 1 Sacred Foundry
• 1 Scute Swarm
• 1 Secret Tunnel
• 1 Slagwoods Bridge
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Springheart Nantuko
• 1 Strip Mine
• 1 Swiftfoot Boots
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Sylvan Safekeeper
• 1 Tannuk, Memorial Ensign
• 1 Terrasymbiosis
• 1 The Earth Crystal
• 1 The Earth King
• 1 The Legend of Kyoshi // Avatar Kyoshi
• 1 The Stasis Coffin
• 1 Tireless Provisioner
• 1 Toph, Earthbending Master
• 1 Toph, Greatest Earthbender
• 1 Toph, Hardheaded Teacher
• 1 Toph, the Blind Bandit
• 1 Toph, the First Metalbender
• 1 Urza's Saga
• 1 Verdant Kraken
• 1 Windswept Heath
• 1 Worldly Tutor
• 1 Zuran Orb