Toph, the First Metalbender by user9953303

Format: Commander

Commander: Toph, the First Metalbender

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 20

Deck overview

Toph, the First Metalbender turns the deck's artifacts into lands and earthbends a land at each end step, creating a growing base of land creatures. The deck supports this plan with counter doublers such as Branching Evolution, Doubling Season, and The Earth Crystal, card flow from Terrasymbiosis and The Great Henge, and extra combat pressure from Bumi, Unleashed. Artifact recursion from Goblin Welder, Scrap Trawler, and Conduit of Worlds helps recover after disruption. Its mana development is solid, and it has a broad but imperfect protection and removal package. The main limitation is pressure: earthbent lands and large creatures do not automatically provide evasion, haste, or enough damage to defeat three players. Bumi, Unleashed requires combat damage before producing another combat, so it is an amplifier rather than a deterministic finisher. The deck is best suited to a general-power multiplayer table where it can build value and win through combat over several turns.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Amulet of Vigor
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archdruid's Charm
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Avatar Kyoshi, Earthbender
  • 1 Ba Sing Se
  • 1 Badgermole Cub
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Branching Evolution
  • 1 Bumi, Unleashed
  • 1 Candelabra of Tawnos
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Collector's Vault
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conduit of Worlds
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Darksteel Citadel
  • 1 Defense of the Heart
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Deserted Temple
  • 1 Doubling Season
  • 1 Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
  • 1 Earthbending Student
  • 1 Earthshape
  • 1 Eladamri's Call
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Expedition Map
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 1 Force of Vigor
  • 2 Forest
  • 1 Getaway Barrel
  • 1 Goblin Engineer
  • 1 Goblin Welder
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hour of Revelation
  • 1 Ichor Wellspring
  • 1 Inkmoth Nexus
  • 1 Inventors' Fair
  • 1 Jetmir's Garden
  • 1 Kutzil, Malamet Exemplar
  • 1 Liquimetal Torque
  • 1 Magus of the Candelabra
  • 1 Marwyn, the Preserver
  • 1 Matzalantli, the Great Door // The Core
  • 1 Mirri's Guile
  • 2 Mountain
  • 1 Mox Opal
  • 1 Mycosynth Lattice
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Oswald Fiddlebender
  • 1 Overgrown Farmland
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Plateau
  • 1 Prismatic Omen
  • 1 Rockalanche
  • 1 Rockfall Vale
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Savannah
  • 1 Scrap Trawler
  • 1 Secret Tunnel
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
  • 1 Shifting Woodland
  • 1 Slagwoods Bridge
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spelunking
  • 1 Sphere Grid
  • 1 Strip Mine
  • 1 Sunpetal Grove
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Sylvan Safekeeper
  • 1 Taiga
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 Terrasymbiosis
  • 1 The Boulder, Ready to Rumble
  • 1 The Earth Crystal
  • 1 The Great Henge
  • 1 The Legend of Kyoshi // Avatar Kyoshi
  • 1 The Ozolith
  • 1 Thespian's Stage
  • 1 Thornglint Bridge
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Tiller Engine
  • 1 Toph, Greatest Earthbender
  • 1 Toph, the First Metalbender
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Walking Ballista
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
  • 1 Zuran Orb