Toph, First Metalbender by jgodbold

Format: Commander

Commander: Toph, the First Metalbender

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 39

Deck overview

Led by Toph, the First Metalbender, this Naya deck turns nontoken artifacts into lands and animates lands into agile, recurring attackers using the Earthbend mechanic. Toph creates an active 2/2 hasty land creature on each of your end steps, providing built-in insurance against removal because earthbent lands automatically return to the battlefield tapped if destroyed or exiled. The deck accelerates in the opening turns with efficient mana dorks and low-cost rocks, deploys Toph on turn 4, and stacks aggressive board pressure through counter amplifiers such as Branching Evolution and Bristly Bill, Spine Sower. Heavy-hitting earthbenders like Bumi, Unleashed and Bumi, Eclectic Earthbender transition the board into a decisive threat by turn 5, supported by game-ending overruns like Overwhelming Stampede and Preposterous Proportions. Robust protection spells including Heroic Intervention and Clever Concealment defend key pieces, while an incidental infinite combat line between Ashaya, Soul of the Wild and Bumi, Unleashed offers a compact alternate route to victory.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abandoned Air Temple
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashaya, Soul of the Wild
  • 1 Austere Command
  • 1 Azusa, Lost but Seeking
  • 1 Ba Sing Se
  • 1 Badgermole
  • 1 Battlefield Forge
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bitter Work
  • 1 Branching Evolution
  • 1 Brightglass Gearhulk
  • 1 Bristly Bill, Spine Sower
  • 1 Brushland
  • 1 Bumi, Eclectic Earthbender
  • 1 Bumi, Unleashed
  • 1 Canopy Vista
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Clever Concealment
  • 1 Clifftop Retreat
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Cycle of Renewal
  • 1 Darksteel Citadel
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Dispatch
  • 1 Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
  • 1 Earthbender Ascension
  • 1 Emerald Medallion
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Felidar Retreat
  • 1 Fire-Lit Thicket
  • 4 Forest
  • 1 Fortified Village
  • 1 Furycalm Snarl
  • 1 Game Trail
  • 1 Great Divide Guide
  • 1 Hardened Scales
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Ichor Wellspring
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Liquimetal Coating
  • 1 Liquimetal Torque
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Marwyn, the Preserver
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mindslaver
  • 1 Mishra's Bauble
  • 1 Mithril Coat
  • 1 Mossfire Valley
  • 3 Mountain
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Ohran Frostfang
  • 1 Ondu Inversion // Ondu Skyruins
  • 1 Ornithopter
  • 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
  • 1 Overgrown Farmland
  • 1 Overlord of the Hauntwoods
  • 1 Overwhelming Stampede
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Preposterous Proportions
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Rugged Prairie
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Sacred Peaks
  • 1 Scavenger Grounds
  • 1 Sephiroth, Fallen Hero
  • 1 Sheltering Landscape
  • 1 Shifting Woodland
  • 1 Skrelv, Defector Mite
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Springheart Nantuko
  • 1 Sungrass Prairie
  • 1 Sunpetal Grove
  • 1 Sunscorched Divide
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Sylvan Safekeeper
  • 1 Terra Eternal
  • 1 The Boulder, Ready to Rumble
  • 1 The Legend of Kyoshi // Avatar Kyoshi
  • 1 The Ozolith
  • 1 The Stasis Coffin
  • 1 Tomik, Distinguished Advokist
  • 1 Toph, the First Metalbender
  • 1 Trouble in Pairs
  • 1 True Ancestry
  • 1 Ultimate Magic: Holy
  • 1 Vanquish the Horde
  • 1 Welcoming Vampire
  • 1 Wooded Ridgeline
  • 1 Wrenn and Realmbreaker