GruulLegendary Creature — Human Warrior AllyToph, Greatest Earthbender
Mana value4Rank#6,005
The Commander
When Toph enters, earthbend X, where X is the amount of mana spent to cast her.
Land creatures you control have double strike.
Guide
Gameplan
Turn your lands into giant double-striking creatures and beat down. Cast Toph for as much mana as possible to dump a big pile of +1/+1 counters onto a land via earthbend, then animate more lands and swing for lethal commander damage and trample.
Strengths
- Lands-as-creatures sidestep traditional creature removal and board wipes that target nonland permanents
- Double strike doubles all combat damage AND combat-trigger value, turning one big land into a one-shot threat
- Earthbend X scales with ramp, rewarding the green mana glut you already build
- Counters on lands stick around and stack across multiple earthbend effects
Weaknesses
- Animating lands exposes your mana base to creature removal, Wrath effects, and edicts — losing lands sets you back hard
- Without animation enablers Toph's static ability does nothing on its own
- Mass land destruction or land-targeted removal (Strip Mine, Wasteland, Beast Within) is devastating
- GR lacks card draw and protection, so a single answer to your one attacker can stall you
Key Cards
- Nissa, Who Shakes the World — Doubles green mana from Forests and animates them as 0/0s that earthbend and counters turn into double-striking monsters.
- The Mending of Dominaria — Mass land animation chapter turns your whole mana base into attackers that all gain double strike from Toph.
- Rishkar's Expertise — Massive counter-loaded lands make this a huge draw spell plus a free follow-up cast.
- Khalni Heart Expedition — Cheap ramp that also feeds the mana-spent calculation when recasting Toph after a board wipe.
- Crucible of Worlds — Lets you replay fetchlands and recover from the land destruction this deck is weak to.
- Rampaging Baloths — Landfall payoffs and ramp keep the engine fueled while you build a lethal land.
Upgrade Path
Add counter doublers like Doubling Season and Hardened Scales to make earthbend X explode, plus mana doublers (Mana Reflection, Zendikar Resurgent) to inflate Toph's cast value. Lean into protection — Heroic Intervention, Snakeskin Veil, and Boots/Greaves — so your animated lands survive removal, and include reach via Rishkar's Expertise and Greater Good for the card advantage GR otherwise lacks.
Core Cards
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Win Conditions
- ▸One-shotting opponents with a massive double-striking, trampling animated land
- ▸Wide land animation turning every land into a double-strike attacker for a lethal alpha strike
- ▸Voltron commander damage from Toph herself with trample and counter buffs
Archetypes
- Lands — Toph rewards heavy land ramp and turns the mana base itself into the win condition.
- Voltron — A single earthbended land with double strike kills via commander-style trample beats quickly.
- +1/+1 Counters — Earthbend X and counter-doublers pile value onto animated lands.
- Aggro — GR midrange beatdown using oversized double-striking creature-lands as the offense.
Combos
No combos found for this commander on Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (GR), by popularity.
