Toph, the First Metalbender

Bracket

• B1 Exhibition — Not in the same deck as its two-card combo partners: The Stasis Coffin, Mindslaver, Gonti's Aether Heart, Caged Sun
• B2 Core — Not in the same deck as its two-card combo partners: The Stasis Coffin, Mindslaver, Gonti's Aether Heart, Caged Sun
• B3 Upgraded — Not in the same deck as its early two-card combo partners: The Stasis Coffin, Mindslaver, Gonti's Aether Heart, Caged Sun
• B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
• B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list

Why

• Two-card combo with The Stasis Coffin, Mindslaver, Gonti's Aether Heart, Caged Sun (early with The Stasis Coffin, Mindslaver, Gonti's Aether Heart, Caged Sun)

How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket

Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags

Combos

1,099 known combos, 4 of them two-card.

• Toph, the First Metalbender + The Stasis Coffin
  Produces: Prevent all damage that would be dealt to you, You have protection from everything during your opponents' turns, Lock
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• Toph, the First Metalbender + Bumi, Unleashed + Liquimetal Torque
  Produces: Infinite combat phases, Infinite mana lands you control can produce, Infinite combat damage
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• Toph, the First Metalbender + Mindslaver
  Produces: You control one opponent on each of their turns, Lock
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Combos: Commander Spellbook

Rulings

• 2025-10-02 · Wizards of the Coast
  You may target a land that is already a creature, perhaps because of a previous earthbend ability. The land will get the +1/+1 counters, gain haste, and have its base power and toughness set to 0/0.
• 2025-10-02 · Wizards of the Coast
  Toph, the First Metalbender's first ability does not allow you to play nontoken artifacts as lands. It only affects permanents on the battlefield.
• 2025-10-02 · Wizards of the Coast
  Earthbend doesn't give the land you control a color. As most lands are colorless, in most cases the resulting land creature will also be colorless.
• 2025-10-02 · Wizards of the Coast
  If the targeted land becomes an illegal target before the spell or ability that includes earthbend resolves, earthbend does nothing. If the spell or ability didn't have other targets, it won't resolve.
• 2025-10-02 · Wizards of the Coast
  The land will retain any other types, subtypes, or supertypes it previously had. It will also retain any mana abilities it had as a result of those subtypes. For example, a Forest that's turned into a creature this way can still be tapped for {G}.
• 2025-10-02 · Wizards of the Coast
  "Earthbend N" means "Target land you control becomes a 0/0 land creature with haste in addition to its other types. Put N +1/+1 counters on it. When it dies or is exiled, return it to the battlefield tapped under your control."
• 2025-10-02 · Wizards of the Coast
  If a land was animated by earthbend and would go to any zone other than the graveyard or exile, it will not be returned to the battlefield by the delayed triggered ability created by earthbend.

Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast