Bend it like Toph by user8256219

Format: Commander

Commander: Toph, the First Metalbender

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This Naya (RGW) deck is built around Toph, the First Metalbender, turning non-token artifacts into lands and using the "earthbend" mechanic to animate lands as huge creature threats. The primary plan is to generate overwhelming board presence through +1/+1 counters, landfall triggers, and extra combat phases. The commander's end-step earthbend fuels a steady stream of land creatures, but the deck also runs a deep bench of other earthbend sources and +1/+1 counter doublers. Wins come via massive combat damage (often with trample, double strike, or extra combats) and the combo-like ping of Shalai and Hallar when counters pile up. The deck is not a fast combo deck; it aims to out-value the table through resilient land creatures that can't be easily removed.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Akroma's Will
  • 1 Annie Joins Up
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashaya, Soul of the Wild
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Avatar Kyoshi, Earthbender
  • 1 Awaken the Woods
  • 1 Ba Sing Se
  • 1 Badgermole Cub
  • 1 Beastmaster Ascension
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Branching Evolution
  • 1 Brightglass Gearhulk
  • 1 Bumi, Eclectic Earthbender
  • 1 Bumi, Unleashed
  • 1 Captain Sisay
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
  • 1 Earthbender Ascension
  • 1 Earthbending Student
  • 1 Eladamri's Call
  • 1 Evendo, Waking Haven
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Famished Worldsire
  • 1 Farewell
  • 6 Forest
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Great Divide Guide
  • 1 Gyre Sage
  • 1 Halana and Alena, Partners
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hushwood Verge
  • 1 Inspiring Vantage
  • 1 Kodama of the West Tree
  • 1 Kutzil, Malamet Exemplar
  • 1 Land Tax
  • 1 Liquimetal Torque
  • 1 Lotus Cobra
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Magus of the Order
  • 1 Moraug, Fury of Akoum
  • 1 Mossborn Hydra
  • 6 Mountain
  • 1 Obuun, Mul Daya Ancestor
  • 1 Ojer Kaslem, Deepest Growth // Temple of Cultivation
  • 1 Ouroboroid
  • 1 Ozolith, the Shattered Spire
  • 5 Plains
  • 1 Planar Engineering
  • 1 Raph & Mikey, Troublemakers
  • 1 Redirect Lightning
  • 1 Rockfall Vale
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Seedborn Muse
  • 1 Shalai and Hallar
  • 1 Sheltered by Ghosts
  • 1 Solid Ground
  • 1 Sphere Grid
  • 1 Sundown Pass
  • 1 Sunpetal Grove
  • 1 Sword of Hearth and Home
  • 1 Sword of the Animist
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Sylvan Scrying
  • 1 Sylvan Tutor
  • 1 Tale of Katara and Toph
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 Terra Eternal
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Boulder, Ready to Rumble
  • 1 The Great Henge
  • 1 The Legend of Kyoshi // Avatar Kyoshi
  • 1 The Ozolith
  • 1 Tiller Engine
  • 1 Toph, Earthbending Master
  • 1 Toph, Greatest Earthbender
  • 1 Toph, Hardheaded Teacher
  • 1 Toph, the First Metalbender
  • 1 Vesuva
  • 1 Vigor
  • 1 Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider
  • 1 Waker of the Wilds
  • 1 Zuran Orb