Melon Lord Pro Max by bobbyfisch

Format: Commander

Commander: Toph, Hardheaded Teacher

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 47

Deck overview

This deck is an aggressive Gruul Landfall and Earthbend strategy led by Toph, Hardheaded Teacher. It uses early ramp spells to deploy Toph on Turn 4, immediately turning lands into hasty, growing creature threats whenever spells are cast. The deck's primary strength lies in the unique resilience of Earthbend: when animated land creatures die or are exiled, they return to the battlefield tapped, turning enemy removal and sacrifice outlets like Greater Good and Skullclamp into ramp and massive card draw. The game plan scales into a critical onset on Turn 5 using counter multipliers like Branching Evolution and Bristly Bill, Spine Sower, or extra combats from Moraug, Fury of Akoum. It tramples over opposing defenses with Kodama of the West Tree and Toph, Greatest Earthbender to eliminate the table by Turn 7. While vulnerable to mass bounce and exile wipes, its robust recursion, high mana velocity, and redundant token engines make it remarkably difficult to grind out.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Amulet of Vigor
  • 1 Archdruid's Charm
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Avenger of Zendikar
  • 1 Ba Sing Se
  • 1 Badgermole Cub
  • 1 Baloth Prime
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Bitter Work
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Branching Evolution
  • 1 Bristly Bill, Spine Sower
  • 1 Bumi, Eclectic Earthbender
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Cycle of Renewal
  • 1 Demolition Field
  • 1 Disciple of Freyalise // Garden of Freyalise
  • 1 Earthbender Ascension
  • 1 Earthbending Student
  • 1 Elven Passage
  • 1 Entish Restoration
  • 1 Escape Tunnel
  • 1 Evolution Sage
  • 1 Evolutionary Leap
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 14 Forest
  • 1 Goblin Bombardment
  • 1 Greater Good
  • 1 Hardened Scales
  • 1 Harrow
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Highway Robbery
  • 1 Hobbit Hole
  • 1 Horizon Explorer
  • 1 Icetill Explorer
  • 1 Inkmoth Nexus
  • 1 Inspiring Call
  • 1 Kodama of the West Tree
  • 1 Meltstrider Eulogist
  • 1 Mightform Harmonizer
  • 1 Moraug, Fury of Akoum
  • 1 Mossborn Hydra
  • 4 Mountain
  • 1 Nahiri's Lithoforming
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Omnath, Locus of Rage
  • 1 Origin of Metalbending
  • 1 Ouroboroid
  • 1 Rampaging Baloths
  • 1 Sapling Nursery
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Secret Tunnel
  • 1 Seismic Sense
  • 1 Shared Roots
  • 1 Shifting Woodland
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Spelunking
  • 1 Springheart Nantuko
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Strip Mine
  • 1 Sylvan Safekeeper
  • 1 Tannuk, Memorial Ensign
  • 1 Tectonic Split
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Terrasymbiosis
  • 1 The Earth Crystal
  • 1 The Legend of Kyoshi // Avatar Kyoshi
  • 1 The Ozolith
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Tifa Lockhart
  • 1 Tiller Engine
  • 1 Titania, Protector of Argoth
  • 1 Toph, Earthbending Master
  • 1 Toph, Greatest Earthbender
  • 1 Toph, Hardheaded Teacher
  • 1 Toph, the Blind Bandit
  • 1 Valakut Exploration
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Vibrant Cityscape
  • 1 Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
  • 1 Zuran Orb