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Toph, the Blind Bandit

Legendary Creature — Human Warrior Ally

When Toph enters, earthbend 2. (Target land you control becomes a 0/0 creature with haste that's still a land. Put two +1/+1 counters on it. When it dies or is exiled, return it to the battlefield tapped.)
Toph's power is equal to the number of +1/+1 counters on lands you control.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Avatar: The Last Airbender
Price
$0.31
EDHREC rank
#3605
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Toph, the Blind Bandit card art
Toph, the Blind Bandit turns every land drop into a free 2/2 Badger token, making her a threat that compounds across the entire game the moment she hits the board. The cost is real — she's a five-mana 4/4 with no immediate protection — but in shells built around Ashaya, Soul of the Wild or alongside Bumi, Unleashed, the token generation snowballs faster than opponents can contain it.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Bumi, Unleashed

Bumi, Unleashed

78.2% of decks · synergy 0.74

Bumi, Unleashed cares about creature tokens entering and leaving, and Toph, the Blind Bandit supplies a steady stream of them every time you play a land — the two together create a self-reinforcing value engine that requires no additional setup.

02
Toph, Earthbending Master

Toph, Earthbending Master

67.7% of decks · synergy 0.65

Toph, Earthbending Master rewards you for having lots of creatures on board, and Toph, the Blind Bandit's land-to-token conversion means that condition is almost always met by the middle turns.

04

Avatar Aang

45.6% of decks · synergy 0.43

Avatar Aang decks span multiple colors and strategies, and Toph, the Blind Bandit slots in as a consistent token producer that scales with the heavy land development those decks tend to run.

05
Toph, Hardheaded Teacher

Toph, Hardheaded Teacher

37.9% of decks · synergy 0.34

Toph, Hardheaded Teacher decks naturally assemble multiple Toph versions in play, and Toph, the Blind Bandit's passive trigger fires every land drop regardless of which Tophs are active, making her a reliable contributor to the creature-count synergies the archetype demands.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is where Toph, the Blind Bandit does her best work — long games, heavy land development, and token synergies are everywhere in the format, and she rewards every land drop with a body. In constructed formats like Standard, Pioneer, and Modern she's legal but fights for space in token or landfall strategies where four- and five-mana payoffs need to be immediately impactful, and the competition is steep. Legacy and Vintage have the card quality to make her irrelevant; no one is landing a five-mana 4/4 in those formats when faster, more broken things are happening. Oathbreaker is a plausible home if the signature spell supports a land-heavy strategy, but Commander remains the format that gets the most out of what Toph, the Blind Bandit offers.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.31 bulk tier

At $0.31, Toph, the Blind Bandit is firmly bulk — easy to pick up as a four-of or for multiple decks without budget concern. She's a new Avatar: The Last Airbender card with wide appeal across several popular commanders, so don't expect this price to crater further, but there's no reason to stockpile copies either.

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