Toph, Earthbending Master
Legendary Creature — Human Warrior Ally
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you get an experience counter.
Whenever you attack, earthbend X, where X is the number of experience counters you have. (Target land you control becomes a 0/0 creature with haste that's still a land. Put X +1/+1 counters on it. When it dies or is exiled, return it to the battlefield tapped.)
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- Avatar: The Last Airbender Eternal
- Price
- $41.00
- EDHREC rank
- #3639
Toph, Earthbending Master hits the board and immediately starts converting land drops into a board state, turning what every green deck does naturally into a threat-generation engine. The cost is real — you're paying four mana for a creature that needs lands to keep firing — but Bumi, Unleashed decks slot her in at a 62% rate for a reason.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Bumi, Unleashed
Bumi, Unleashed triggers off lands entering and wants as many enter-the-battlefield payoffs as possible, making Toph, Earthbending Master a natural fit that doubles up every land drop as both ramp fuel and token generation.
Toph, the First Metalbender
Toph, the First Metalbender runs the full Toph suite as a thematic and functional package, and Toph, Earthbending Master's land-to-token conversion pairs cleanly with the metalbending commander's artifact-and-creature synergies.
Avatar Aang
Avatar Aang's wide color identity lets it run every Avatar series payoff available, and Toph, Earthbending Master provides the kind of steady, passive board presence that keeps Aang's go-wide strategies fueled between key spell turns.
Toph, Hardheaded Teacher
Toph, Hardheaded Teacher leans into the Toph legend synergies directly, and Toph, Earthbending Master slots in as a consistent land-drop payoff that works independently of any single combo piece.
Jolrael, Voice of Zhalfir
Jolrael, Voice of Zhalfir cares about drawing cards and animating lands, and Toph, Earthbending Master layers a token-generation angle on top of that land-focused game plan, giving the deck a second axis of board development.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Toph, Earthbending Master lives — a 100-card singleton format with room for themed Avatar builds and land-synergy shells means she has a ready audience and plenty of enablers. Legacy and Vintage have no formal ban on her, but a four-mana creature that generates tokens off land drops is nowhere near the power level those formats demand. Oathbreaker is legal and theoretically interesting, but the 60-card constraint makes consistent land-drop payoffs harder to assemble. Commander is the call.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Budget Alternatives
Cheaper options that do most of the same work
If $41 is too steep, Rampaging Baloths covers a similar role — lands entering make 4/4 tokens, no mana investment required per trigger, and it runs under $1. You lose the Avatar type, the specific set of activated abilities, and any commander-synergy bonuses that key on Toph by name, but the core function of converting land drops into board presence is intact.
Price Context
Current price
$41.00 premium tier
At $41, Toph, Earthbending Master sits in premium territory, driven by crossover demand from Avatar fans and competitive inclusion across multiple commander archetypes. Whether that price holds depends on reprint exposure — as a licensed product card, the reprint window is narrower than a standard Magic release, which supports the floor.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.