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Toph, Greatest Earthbender

Legendary Creature — Human Warrior Ally

When Toph enters, earthbend X, where X is the amount of mana spent to cast her.
Land creatures you control have double strike.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{2}{R}{G}
Color identity
GR
Rarity
rare
Set
Avatar: The Last Airbender Eternal
Price
$20.40
EDHREC rank
#6142
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Toph, Greatest Earthbender card art
Toph, Greatest Earthbender turns every land drop into a threat — put a land creature token into play, and with Ashaya, Soul of the Wild on board, your entire creature base starts tapping for mana. The cost of admission is that the token engine requires lands entering from multiple sources to scale, which means Toph, Greatest Earthbender earns her slot most decisively alongside Bumi, Unleashed, where the piece-count is already there.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Bumi, Unleashed

Bumi, Unleashed

68.4% of decks · synergy 0.65

Bumi, Unleashed is already assembling a land-matters package that wants redundant token producers, and Toph, Greatest Earthbender's ability to convert each land drop into a body fits the engine cleanly — 68% of Bumi decks include her for exactly that reason.

03
Toph, Hardheaded Teacher

Toph, Hardheaded Teacher

33.6% of decks · synergy 0.30

Toph, Hardheaded Teacher builds around land-based synergies where each additional body matters, and Toph, Greatest Earthbender slots in as the payoff that makes extra land drops immediately board-relevant.

04

Avatar Aang

19.2% of decks · synergy 0.18

Avatar Aang pulls from multiple element-themed synergy cards across colors, and Toph, Greatest Earthbender earns her spot as the land-to-creature converter that keeps the engine ticking between key turns.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern not legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Toph, Greatest Earthbender lives — the 100-card singleton format gives the land-drop engine enough room to find its supporting pieces, and multiplayer games last long enough to recoup the investment. In Legacy and Vintage she's technically legal but competes in environments that end before the token accumulation matters, so she's a non-factor there. Oathbreaker is a reasonable secondary home if the signature spell slots accelerate land plays.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

Scute Swarm does the closest impression of Toph, Greatest Earthbender's token-from-land-drop function at well under a dollar, though it caps out on basic land triggers and doesn't generate the same creature type flexibility. Retreat to Kazandu costs almost nothing and trades the token body for counters, which is a real downgrade if you need board presence but acceptable if you're already flooding the table with creatures through other means.

Price Context

Current price

$20.40 premium tier

At $20.40, Toph, Greatest Earthbender sits at the premium tier — justified if you're running a dedicated land-matters or Avatar-block Commander build, harder to defend as a casual include. The price reflects the card's newness and cross-deck appeal rather than a narrow spike, so it's unlikely to collapse but won't trend meaningfully lower until reprint pressure arrives.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.