tophMetalBender_paper by doublevp

Format: Commander

Commander: Toph, the First Metalbender

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 35

Deck overview

This deck is a synergistic midrange strategy that bridges artifacts and lands using Toph, the First Metalbender. By turning nontoken artifacts into lands, Toph allows them to trigger landfall engines and receive Earthbend counters. Earthbent artifacts become resilient attackers and sacrifice fodder that automatically return to the battlefield when removed. The deck ramps aggressively on early turns, establishes Toph by Turn 4, and follows up with major landfall threats like Titania, Protector of Argoth, Omnath, Locus of Rage, and Scute Swarm on Turn 5. Mass land recursion from Splendid Reclamation and Aftermath Analyst produces explosive token waves and mana surges. Protection from Sylvan Safekeeper and card advantage from clue engines support the board until combat damage closes the game around Turn 7.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Aftermath Analyst
• 1 All That Glitters
• 1 Ancient Den
• 1 Ancient Greenwarden
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Arcbound Ravager
• 1 Artifact Mutation
• 1 Brittle Effigy
• 1 Bronze Guardian
• 1 Canopy Vista
• 1 Cinder Glade
• 1 Cityscape Leveler
• 1 Clifftop Retreat
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Conduit of Worlds
• 1 Daredevil Dragster
• 1 Darksteel Citadel
• 1 Dispatch
• 1 Dispeller's Capsule
• 1 Duplicant
• 1 Evolution Sage
• 1 Evolving Wilds
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Farseek
• 1 Felidar Retreat
• 5 Forest
• 1 Foundry Inspector
• 1 Goblin Engineer
• 1 Great Furnace
• 1 Greater Good
• 1 Halana and Alena, Partners
• 1 Haywire Mite
• 1 Ichor Wellspring
• 1 Idol of Oblivion
• 1 Junk Diver
• 1 Krosan Verge
• 1 Lotus Cobra
• 1 Manglehorn
• 4 Mountain
• 1 Mycosynth Wellspring
• 1 Myr Retriever
• 1 Nature's Lore
• 1 Omnath, Locus of Rage
• 1 Osgir, the Reconstructor
• 1 Overgrown Farmland
• 1 Ozolith, the Shattered Spire
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Perennial Behemoth
• 4 Plains
• 1 Quicksmith Genius
• 1 Rampaging Baloths
• 1 Ramunap Excavator
• 1 Reckoner Bankbuster
• 1 Resourceful Defense
• 1 Return of the Wildspeaker
• 1 Rishkar's Expertise
• 1 Rishkar, Peema Renegade
• 1 Roaring Earth
• 1 Rockfall Vale
• 1 Rootbound Crag
• 1 Rustvale Bridge
• 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1 Scrap Trawler
• 1 Scute Swarm
• 1 Slagwoods Bridge
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Soul of New Phyrexia
• 1 Spelunking
• 1 Splendid Reclamation
• 1 Steel Hellkite
• 1 Sundown Pass
• 1 Sunpetal Grove
• 1 Sylvan Safekeeper
• 1 Talisman of Conviction
• 1 Talisman of Impulse
• 1 Talisman of Unity
• 1 Terramorphic Expanse
• 1 The Mycosynth Gardens
• 1 Thornglint Bridge
• 1 Three Visits
• 1 Tireless Provisioner
• 1 Tireless Tracker
• 1 Titania, Protector of Argoth
• 1 Toph, the First Metalbender
• 1 Treasure Vault
• 1 Tree of Tales
• 1 Unstable Obelisk
• 1 Valakut Exploration
• 1 Walking Atlas
• 1 World Shaper