Erdbeben by Dauth95

Format: Commander

Commander: Toph, the First Metalbender

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 20

Deck overview

This deck turns lands and artifact lands into temporary creatures through earthbend, then converts counters and landfall into combat pressure. Toph, the First Metalbender is the central engine because it makes every nontoken artifact a land and supplies a recurring end-step earthbend. Sol Ring, Mana Vault, Nature's Lore, and Three Visits help deploy the commander and expensive payoffs. The strongest supporting engines are Terrasymbiosis, Doubling Season, The Earth Crystal, and The One Ring. Pressure comes from Bumi, Unleashed, Toph, Greatest Earthbender, Craterhoof Behemoth, and large counter-enhanced land creatures. The deck has respectable removal and several protection spells, but it is not built for cEDH speed. Its primary threat usually appears around turn 9, and combat dependence prevents a reliable table-wide finish. It is strongest in slower mid-power games where repeated earthbend value can accumulate.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Amulet of Vigor
  • 1 Ancient Den
  • 1 Annie Joins Up
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Ashaya, Soul of the Wild
  • 1 Avatar Kyoshi, Earthbender
  • 1 Ba Sing Se
  • 1 Badgermole
  • 1 Badgermole Cub
  • 1 Blast Zone
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Bountiful Promenade
  • 1 Bristly Bill, Spine Sower
  • 1 Bumi, Eclectic Earthbender
  • 1 Bumi, Unleashed
  • 1 Chord of Calling
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cracked Earth Technique
  • 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Darksteel Citadel
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Doubling Season
  • 1 Earthbender Ascension
  • 1 Earthbending Student
  • 1 Earthshape
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Farewell
  • 1 Field of the Dead
  • 1 Finale of Devastation
  • 4 Forest
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Great Divide Guide
  • 1 Great Furnace
  • 1 Haywire Mite
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hour of Revelation
  • 1 Inventors' Fair
  • 1 Jetmir's Garden
  • 1 Kuldotha Forgemaster
  • 1 Ley Weaver
  • 1 Liquimetal Coating
  • 1 Liquimetal Torque
  • 1 Lotus Cobra
  • 1 Lotus Field
  • 1 Mana Reflection
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Mirror Box
  • 1 Mountain
  • 1 Mox Opal
  • 1 Mycosynth Lattice
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Ozolith, the Shattered Spire
  • 1 Plains
  • 1 Planar Outburst
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Rockalanche
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Secret Tunnel
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solid Ground
  • 1 Spectator Seating
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Sterling Grove
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Strip Mine
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Sylvan Safekeeper
  • 1 Tale of Katara and Toph
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 Terrasymbiosis
  • 1 The Earth Crystal
  • 1 The Legend of Kyoshi // Avatar Kyoshi
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 The Ozolith
  • 1 The Stasis Coffin
  • 1 The Walls of Ba Sing Se
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Toph, Earthbending Master
  • 1 Toph, Greatest Earthbender
  • 1 Toph, Hardheaded Teacher
  • 1 Toph, the Blind Bandit
  • 1 Toph, the First Metalbender
  • 1 Treasure Vault
  • 1 Tree of Tales
  • 1 Ultron, Artificial Malevolence
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Worldly Tutor
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
  • 1 Zuran Orb