Toph Metal Bending by user1985408

Format: Commander

Commander: Toph, the First Metalbender

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This Naya deck helmed by Toph, the First Metalbender transforms artifacts into lands while leaning on the "earthbend" mechanic to animate lands into hasty, +1/+1-counter-growing creatures. The primary game plan involves deploying multiple earthbend sources each turn, turning lands into massive attackers that return to the battlefield as lands when they die-a built-in recursion engine. Combined with +1/+1 counter doublers like Hardened Scales and Branching Evolution, landfall triggers from Omnath, Locus of Rage and Evolution Sage, and finishers like Titanic Ultimatum or extra combats from Bumi, Unleashed, the deck overwhelms opponents through combat damage. The commander's end-step earthbend provides a reliable, repeatable source of land creatures, but the strategy is well-supported by a dense suite of other earthbend cards.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abandoned Air Temple
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashaya, Soul of the Wild
  • 1 Avatar Kyoshi, Earthbender
  • 1 Azusa, Lost but Seeking
  • 1 Ba Sing Se
  • 1 Badgermole Cub
  • 1 Bitter Work
  • 1 Branching Evolution
  • 1 Bumi, Unleashed
  • 1 Canopy Vista
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Cloudshift
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commercial District
  • 1 Conjurer's Closet
  • 1 Contagion Clasp
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Decimate
  • 1 Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
  • 1 Earthbender Ascension
  • 1 Earthshape
  • 1 Eladamri's Call
  • 1 Emerald Medallion
  • 1 Evolution Sage
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Felidar Retreat
  • 1 Force of Vigor
  • 6 Forest
  • 1 Gavony Township
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Grasslands
  • 1 Great Divide Guide
  • 1 Hardened Scales
  • 1 Harrow
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hour of Revelation
  • 1 Inspiring Call
  • 1 Jungle Shrine
  • 1 Kessig Wolf Run
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Liquimetal Torque
  • 5 Mountain
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Obscuring Haze
  • 1 Omnath, Locus of Rage
  • 1 Origin of Metalbending
  • 1 Panharmonicon
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Radiant Summit
  • 1 Restless Prairie
  • 1 Return of the Wildspeaker
  • 1 Rockalanche
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Rumble Arena
  • 1 Scythecat Cub
  • 1 Shifting Woodland
  • 1 Skybreaker, Sword of Bashenga
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solid Ground
  • 1 Springheart Nantuko
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Sunpetal Grove
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Sylvan Safekeeper
  • 1 Tannuk, Memorial Ensign
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Terrasymbiosis
  • 1 The Boulder, Ready to Rumble
  • 1 The Earth Crystal
  • 1 The Earth King
  • 1 The Legend of Kyoshi // Avatar Kyoshi
  • 1 The Stasis Coffin
  • 1 Titanic Ultimatum
  • 1 Toph, Earthbending Master
  • 1 Toph, Greatest Earthbender
  • 1 Toph, Hardheaded Teacher
  • 1 Toph, the Blind Bandit
  • 1 Toph, the First Metalbender
  • 1 Training Compound
  • 1 Vesuva
  • 1 Walk-In Closet // Forgotten Cellar
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Wilderness Reclamation
  • 1 Wrenn and Realmbreaker
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth