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Toph, Hardheaded Teacher

Legendary Creature — Human Warrior Ally · {2}{R}{G} · Green/Red commander

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.)

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What Toph, Hardheaded Teacher actually does

Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.

• Triggered ability · etbWhen Toph enters, you may discard a card. If you do, return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.
• Triggered ability · cast_spellWhenever you cast a spell, earthbend 1. If that spell is a Lesson, put an additional +1/+1 counter on that land.
• Keyword · earthbendearthbend

What a Toph, Hardheaded Teacher deck wants

The plan the Forge derives for this commander: the roles it fills and how many of each.

• 6× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
• 16× A creature that HAS the keyword the commander's trigger counts — a card that merely says the word is not one
• 18× A cheap spell of any kind — casts per turn are the engine for an unrestricted cast trigger
• 8× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
• 6× Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
• 14× Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
• 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 1× Answer a whole board at once
• 9× Find the exact card the plan needs

Best cards for Toph, Hardheaded Teacher

Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.

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