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Toph, Hardheaded Teacher

Legendary Creature — Human Warrior Ally MV 4

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What it does

When Toph enters, you may discard a card. If you do, return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

Whenever you cast a spell, earthbend 1. If that spell is a Lesson, put an additional +1/+1 counter on that land. (Target land you control becomes a 0/0 creature with haste that's still a land. Put a +1/+1 counter on it. When it dies or is exiled, return it to the battlefield tapped.)

Combos with Toph, Hardheaded Teacher

Lines this card is part of — what it needs alongside it, and what the two of them do. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.

  • Gaea's Cradle Constant Mists Spelunking Infinite
    • Infinite storm count
    • Infinite mana lands you control can produce
    • Infinite green mana
    • Infinite magecraft triggers
    • Infinite landfall triggers
    • Infinite card draw
    • Infinite draw triggers
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Toph, the First Metalbender Zuran Orb Gruul Turf Infinite
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite landfall triggers
    • Infinite lifegain
    • Infinite lifegain triggers
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite storm count
    • Infinite artifact ETB
    • Infinite artifact LTB
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness Yedora, Grave Gardener Goblin Bombardment Infinite
    • Cast all spells in your library
    • Cast any number of spells from opponents' libraries
    • Exile all libraries
    • Near-infinite creature ETB
    • Near-infinite creature LTB
    • Near-infinite damage
    • Near-infinite death triggers
    • Near-infinite green mana
    • Near-infinite landfall triggers
    • Near-infinite magecraft triggers
    • Near-infinite recursion of lands you control
    • Near-infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Near-infinite storm count
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Gaea's Cradle Constant Mists Amulet of Vigor Infinite
    • Infinite storm count
    • Infinite mana lands you control can produce
    • Infinite green mana
    • Infinite magecraft triggers
    • Infinite landfall triggers
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →

Showing the 4 shortest and most explosive. This card appears in more than these — follow any of them through to Commander Spellbook to browse the rest.

Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.

Rulings

6 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2025-10-02

    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

    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

    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

    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 .

  • 2025-10-02

    "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

    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 are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.

As a commander

Decks built with Toph, Hardheaded Teacher in the command zone.

Decks led 1
Games played 0
Wins 0
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games — not enough to publish a rate yet.

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Toph, Hardheaded Teacher, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 1
Games played 0
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games — not enough to publish a rate yet.
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Every version of Toph, Hardheaded Teacher

3 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly — a printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall genuinely publishes none for some of them.

Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Toph, Hardheaded Teacher — a name search across every version, for the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.

Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only — no individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.