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Price
€497.08of €500.00
Overall win rate
6%13 wins in 203 scored games
Games
260 (57)played in 26 tournaments, 57 not scored (time limit)
Rank
61in the rankings up to €500 · Elo 1228 (start 1500)
Cards
100incl. commander · 36 lands, 14 of them basic
Game Changer
2of at most 3 allowed
Combos
5complete in the deck
Rules check
Passed100 cards, colors, banlist

At most €500 including the commander. If prices rise above that, the shopping list is rebuilt automatically.

The shopping list was rebuilt with current prices on Oct 25, 2026: the tested version had risen to €503.18, above €500.00. Win rate and placement come from the tested version.

grey: role in the deckGame Changer counts for the bracketCombo part of a comboAI can't play replaced in tournamentsAI limited played weakly by the AI

Commander (1)

Creatures (27)

Instants (9)

Sorceries (3)

Artifacts (17)

Enchantments (7)

Lands (36)

Toph, the First Metalbender
Card image: © Wizards of the Coast, via Scryfall

Combos in the deck (5)

Detected from the decklist (Commander Spellbook): theoretically possible, see Spellbook for requirements. Whether a combo actually came together in games is shown above under “What the games show”.

  • Ashaya, Soul of the Wild + … → Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    18 versions, each with one of: Sylvan Safekeeper · Zuran Orb · Ashnod's Altar · Badgermole Cub · Toph, the Blind Bandit · Bumi, Eclectic Earthbender and 3 more
  • Toph, the First Metalbender + Mycosynth Lattice + … → Infinite combat phases, Infinite mana lands you control can produce, Infinite creature ETB
    8 versions, each with one of: Bumi, Unleashed · Zuran Orb · Ashnod's Altar · Liquimetal Torque · Liquimetal Coating · Sylvan Safekeeper
  • Springheart Nantuko + … → Infinite landfall triggers, Infinite tapped land tokens
    6 versions, each with one of: Tireless Provisioner · Lotus Cobra · Toph, the First Metalbender
  • Bumi, Unleashed + Ashaya, Soul of the Wild → Infinite combat phases, Infinite mana lands you control can produce, Infinite green mana
  • Toph, the First Metalbender + The Stasis Coffin → Prevent all damage that would be dealt to you, You have protection from everything during your opponents' turns, Lock

Commander Spellbook lists 34 entries because every version counts separately (for example with a different sacrifice outlet). Here each combo counts once.

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  • Springheart Nantuko + Tireless Provisioner → Infinite landfall triggers, Infinite tapped land tokens
  • Springheart Nantuko + Tireless Provisioner → Infinite landfall triggers, Infinite tapped land tokens
  • Springheart Nantuko + Lotus Cobra → Infinite landfall triggers, Infinite tapped land tokens
  • Springheart Nantuko + Lotus Cobra → Infinite landfall triggers, Infinite tapped land tokens
  • Bumi, Unleashed + Ashaya, Soul of the Wild → Infinite combat phases, Infinite mana lands you control can produce, Infinite green mana
  • Toph, the First Metalbender + The Stasis Coffin → Prevent all damage that would be dealt to you, You have protection from everything during your opponents' turns, Lock
  • Ashaya, Soul of the Wild + Sylvan Safekeeper + Badgermole Cub → Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
  • Toph, the First Metalbender + Bumi, Unleashed + Liquimetal Torque → Infinite combat phases, Infinite mana lands you control can produce, Infinite combat damage
  • Ashaya, Soul of the Wild + Zuran Orb + Badgermole Cub → Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
  • Ashaya, Soul of the Wild + Zuran Orb + Toph, the Blind Bandit → Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
  • Ashaya, Soul of the Wild + Zuran Orb + Bumi, Eclectic Earthbender → Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
  • Ashaya, Soul of the Wild + Zuran Orb + Earthbending Student → Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
  • Toph, the First Metalbender + Bumi, Unleashed + Liquimetal Coating → Infinite combat phases, Infinite mana lands you control can produce, Infinite combat damage
  • Ashaya, Soul of the Wild + Sylvan Safekeeper + Bumi, Eclectic Earthbender → Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
  • Ashaya, Soul of the Wild + Sylvan Safekeeper + Toph, the Blind Bandit → Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
  • Ashaya, Soul of the Wild + Sylvan Safekeeper + Earthbending Student → Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
  • Toph, the First Metalbender + Bumi, Unleashed + Mycosynth Lattice → Infinite colored mana, Infinite combat phases, Infinite mana lands you control can produce
  • Toph, the First Metalbender + Zuran Orb + Mycosynth Lattice → Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
  • Toph, the First Metalbender + Zuran Orb + Mycosynth Lattice → Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB, Infinite death triggers
  • Ashaya, Soul of the Wild + Zuran Orb + Badgermole → Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
  • Toph, the First Metalbender + Springheart Nantuko + Lotus Cobra → Infinite landfall triggers, Infinite tapped land tokens
  • Toph, the First Metalbender + Springheart Nantuko + Tireless Provisioner → Infinite landfall triggers, Infinite tapped land tokens
  • Ashaya, Soul of the Wild + Sylvan Safekeeper + Badgermole → Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
  • Toph, the First Metalbender + Mycosynth Lattice + Sylvan Safekeeper → Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB, Infinite death triggers
  • Ashaya, Soul of the Wild + Zuran Orb + Earth Kingdom General → Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
  • Ashaya, Soul of the Wild + Sylvan Safekeeper + Earth Kingdom General → Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
  • Ashaya, Soul of the Wild + Ashnod's Altar + Badgermole Cub → Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
  • Ashaya, Soul of the Wild + Ashnod's Altar + Toph, the Blind Bandit → Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
  • Ashaya, Soul of the Wild + Ashnod's Altar + Bumi, Eclectic Earthbender → Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
  • Ashaya, Soul of the Wild + Ashnod's Altar + Earthbending Student → Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite colorless mana
  • Toph, the First Metalbender + Ashnod's Altar + Mycosynth Lattice → Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
  • Toph, the First Metalbender + Ashnod's Altar + Mycosynth Lattice → Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB, Infinite colored mana
  • Ashaya, Soul of the Wild + Ashnod's Altar + Badgermole → Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
  • Ashaya, Soul of the Wild + Ashnod's Altar + Earth Kingdom General → Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers

What the games show

From 203 analysed games in 26 tournaments (tournament lists as played by Forge). Games that hit the time limit don't count, just like in the rankings. Values in brackets: average of all decks in the same price class. “logged”: recorded in the game log. “indication”: recurring pattern, but no proof of cause and effect.

Play style: wins through combat – 94% of the damage to opponents is combat damage

Strengths

  • Often wins by combo: in 4 of 13 wins all pieces of a combo were in play indication

Weaknesses

  • Often eliminated first: in 57% of games (all-deck avg: 25%) logged (115 of 203 games)
  • Little pressure: only avg 15 damage to opponents per game (all-deck avg: 29) logged (203 games)
  • Rarely eliminates opponents: 0.22 per game on average (all-deck avg: 0.62) logged (203 games)
  • Slow to win: wins on average only on its 12th own turn (all-deck avg: 11th) logged (13 wins)

Damage per game all games

Total damage to opponents ÷ all 203 games – what the card contributes over the whole test

  1. Forest avg 3.0hit in 63 of 203 games
  2. Plains avg 2.0hit in 38 of 203 games
  3. Tannuk, Memorial Ensign avg 1.0hit in 18 of 203 games

Damage when used when it hits

Total damage ÷ games in which the card dealt damage – its strength when used

  1. Tannuk, Memorial Ensign avg 11.7hit in 18 of 203 games
  2. Plains avg 10.6hit in 38 of 203 games
  3. Forest avg 9.6hit in 63 of 203 games

Top finishers eliminates opponents

Cards that most often knocked an opposing commander out of the game

  1. Forest 11×203 games in deck
  2. Plains 9×203 games in deck
  3. Scute Swarm 3×178 games in deck

Best interaction answers threats

Opposing cards destroyed, exiled, bounced or countered when this card resolved (tokens excluded)

  1. Hour of Revelation 121×avg 0.6 per game · 203 games in deck
  2. Vandalblast 32×avg 0.2 per game · 164 games in deck
  3. Path to Exile 28×avg 0.1 per game · 203 games in deck

Biggest walls blocks the most

Opposing cards that blocked this deck's attackers most often – 19% of 1197 attackers blocked in total, 10% of those by flyers or reach

  1. Teysa Karlov 5×blocked in 3 games
  2. Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 5×blocked in 3 games
  3. Yawgmoth, Thran Physician 5×blocked in 3 games

Rarely cast candidates to cut

Cards in this list that were cast least often in their games – often too expensive or too slow (lands excluded)

  1. The Legend of Kyoshi // Avatar Kyoshi 0%cast in 0 of 203 games
  2. Annie Joins Up 6%cast in 12 of 203 games
  3. Bitter Work 6%cast in 12 of 203 games

Wins by turn speed

On which own turn the 13 wins came

  • by turn 70%
  • turns 8–98%
  • turns 10–1138%
  • turns 12–1323%
  • turn 14+31%

Combos in play logged Springheart Nantuko + Tireless Provisioner: all pieces cast in 4 games, 1 won · Springheart Nantuko + Tireless Provisioner: all pieces cast in 4 games, 1 won · Springheart Nantuko + Lotus Cobra: all pieces cast in 2 games, 0 won · Springheart Nantuko + Lotus Cobra: all pieces cast in 2 games, 0 won

Mana curve without lands

Average 2.95

2
0
9
1
13
2
19
3
12
4
4
5
3
6
1
7+

Roles in the deck

Ramp
16 / 15
Card draw
8 / 8
Removal
6 / 6
Board wipe
2 / 2
Protection
5 / 5
Strategy
26 cards no target

Count / target from the EDHREC average deck (the line), red means clearly below. Strategy: the remaining cards without one of these roles, such as the creatures and effects the deck is built around. 63 non-land cards in total.

Card types

Creatures
27
Instants
9
Sorceries
3
Artifacts
17
Enchantments
7
Lands
36

Most expensive cards

Badgermole Cub
€51.02
Esper Sentinel
€39.56
Toph, Earthbending Master
€37.89
Arid Mesa
€27.18
Enlightened Tutor
€25.41
Toph, Greatest Earthbender
€18.18
Avatar Kyoshi, Earthbender
€17.46
Earthbending Student
€17.37

What the program has learned

Each tournament the deck tests one card. A verdict needs at least 40 games with and without the card. Since the deck is rebuilt every tournament with current prices and data, tested cards can drop out again later.

  • no clear difference Sandbenders' Storm instead of Omnath, Locus of Rage · win rate 7% with, 4% without (152 / 51 games)
  • no clear difference Omnath, Locus of Rage instead of Sandbenders' Storm · win rate 4% with, 7% without (51 / 152 games)
  • no clear difference Lightning Greaves instead of Veil of Summer · win rate 6% with, 7% without (71 / 132 games) · from an earlier version, not in the deck now
  • no clear difference Earth Rumble instead of Earthbending Lesson · win rate 7% with, 6% without (90 / 113 games)
  • no clear difference Expedition Map instead of Earthbending Lesson · win rate 7% with, 6% without (60 / 143 games)

12 more tested cards are still collecting games.

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Total €497.08 Cardmarket average as of Oct 27, 2026

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Placement in every tournament

Oldest on the left. Green: top 3, blue: top 10.

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Best place 31 · average place 53.0 · 0× top 3 · 0× top 10 out of 26 tournaments

Played by the Forge AI, four players per game. An average deck wins 25%. How are decks tested?