At a glance
- Format: Brawl (100-card)
- Commander: The Boulder, Ready to Rumble
- Colors: Green (G)
- Archetype: Mono-G earthbend counters / landfall midrange (budget)
- Power tier: competitive
- Competitive Brawl: ✅ Legal
Strategy
Play out the full earthbend package (Badgermole Cub, Toph, Earthbender Ascension, Earth Rumble, Earthbending Lesson, Bumi, plus budget adds Earthbending Student, Solid Ground, Bumi’s Feast Lecture) to animate your lands into +1/+1-counter creatures that keep coming back under wraths thanks to the earthbend return clause. In place of the pricey counter-doubler bombs, lean on cheap counter multipliers and proliferate (Kami of Whispered Hopes, Innkeeper’s Talent, Contagious Vorrac, Cankerbloom, Solid Ground) plus counters-matter payoffs (Wildwood Scourge, Scurry Oak, Bristly-style go-wide) so every earthbend still snowballs. Ramp dorks and double-landfall value (Tireless Provisioner, Roaring Earth, Mossborn Hydra, Rampaging Baloths) power out ahead while Elemental Bond, Garruk’s Uprising, Colossal Majesty, and Vizier of the Menagerie refill the hand. Green fight/bite spells double as removal off your huge animated lands, Snakeskin Veil / Tyvar’s Stand / Tamiyo’s Safekeeping protect the board, and Overrun or Overcome turn the animated mana base into a lethal alpha strike behind The Boulder’s power-4 attack trigger.
Upgrade path
This is the playable-now build: zero rare/mythic wildcard crafts required. The commander is uncommon and already owned. Every unowned rare/mythic from the ideal (Toph Earthbending Master, Doubling Season, Hardened Scales, Branching Evolution, The Earth Crystal, Ozolith, Ancient Greenwarden, The Great Henge, Craterhoof Behemoth, Finale of Devastation, Green Sun’s Zenith, Scute Swarm, Cultivator Colossus, Bristly Bill, Return of the Wildspeaker, Heroic Intervention) was swapped for an owned card or a free common/uncommon in the same role. The power version at data/decks_json/brawl-earthbend.json is the ideal upgrade path: prioritize crafting the counter-doubler core (Doubling Season, Hardened Scales, The Earth Crystal, Branching Evolution) and the tutor/finisher package (Green Sun’s Zenith, Craterhoof Behemoth, Finale of Devastation) first.
Cards
Decklist
Paste straight into MTG Arena (or Moxfield/Archidekt):
Commander
1 The Boulder, Ready to Rumble
Deck
1 Badgermole Cub
1 Haru, Hidden Talent
1 Toph, the Blind Bandit
1 Earthbender Ascension
1 Earth Rumble
1 Rockalanche
1 Earthbending Lesson
1 Earth Kingdom General
1 The Earth King
1 Bumi, King of Three Trials
1 Badgermole
1 Cracked Earth Technique
1 Rebellious Captives
1 The Legend of Kyoshi
1 Seedship Agrarian
1 Innkeeper's Talent
1 Evolution Sage
1 Kami of Whispered Hopes
1 Mossborn Hydra
1 Rampaging Baloths
1 Llanowar Elves
1 Ilysian Caryatid
1 Druid of the Cowl
1 Woodland Mystic
1 Overgrown Zealot
1 Elvish Archdruid
1 Arcane Signet
1 Mind Stone
1 Wayfarer's Bauble
1 Solemn Simulacrum
1 Circuitous Route
1 Cultivate
1 Garruk's Uprising
1 Colossal Majesty
1 Vizier of the Menagerie
1 Rabid Bite
1 Run Over
1 Rocky Rebuke
1 Ram Through
1 Beast Within
1 Pick Your Poison
1 Felling Blow
1 Reclamation Sage
1 Snakeskin Veil
1 Inspiring Call
1 Ouroboroid
1 Earthbending Student
1 Solid Ground
1 Bumi's Feast Lecture
1 Roaring Earth
1 Tireless Provisioner
1 Wildwood Scourge
1 Scurry Oak
1 Contagious Vorrac
1 Cankerbloom
1 Basking Broodscale
1 Elemental Bond
1 Overrun
1 Overcome
1 Tyvar's Stand
1 Tamiyo's Safekeeping
1 Adventure Awaits
1 Command Tower
1 Ba Sing Se
1 Karn's Bastion
34 Forest
Ideal build (upgrade target)
The power-ceiling build (multi-agent workflow output) — every premium payoff and the full combo/synergy package. The current list is the playable-now budget version; craft toward this as your wildcards come in.
Crafts to reach the ideal: 17 (8 mythic, 9 rare)
- Mythic: Ancient Greenwarden, Bristly Bill, Spine Sower, Craterhoof Behemoth, Cultivator Colossus, Doubling Season, Finale of Devastation, The Great Henge, Toph, Earthbending Master
- Rare: Branching Evolution, Castle Garenbrig, Green Sun’s Zenith, Hardened Scales, Heroic Intervention, Ozolith, the Shattered Spire, Return of the Wildspeaker, Scute Swarm, The Earth Crystal
Full ideal list (paste into Arena):
Commander
1 The Boulder, Ready to Rumble
Deck
1 Badgermole Cub
1 Haru, Hidden Talent
1 Toph, the Blind Bandit
1 Earthbender Ascension
1 Earth Rumble
1 Rockalanche
1 Earthbending Lesson
1 Earth Kingdom General
1 The Earth King
1 Bumi, King of Three Trials
1 Badgermole
1 Toph, Earthbending Master
1 Cracked Earth Technique
1 Rebellious Captives
1 The Legend of Kyoshi
1 Seedship Agrarian
1 Hardened Scales
1 Ozolith, the Shattered Spire
1 Branching Evolution
1 The Earth Crystal
1 Doubling Season
1 Innkeeper's Talent
1 Evolution Sage
1 Kami of Whispered Hopes
1 Mossborn Hydra
1 Scute Swarm
1 Rampaging Baloths
1 Bristly Bill, Spine Sower
1 Ancient Greenwarden
1 Llanowar Elves
1 Ilysian Caryatid
1 Druid of the Cowl
1 Woodland Mystic
1 Overgrown Zealot
1 Elvish Archdruid
1 Arcane Signet
1 Mind Stone
1 Wayfarer's Bauble
1 Solemn Simulacrum
1 Circuitous Route
1 Cultivate
1 Garruk's Uprising
1 Colossal Majesty
1 The Great Henge
1 Return of the Wildspeaker
1 Vizier of the Menagerie
1 Rabid Bite
1 Run Over
1 Rocky Rebuke
1 Ram Through
1 Beast Within
1 Pick Your Poison
1 Felling Blow
1 Reclamation Sage
1 Heroic Intervention
1 Snakeskin Veil
1 Inspiring Call
1 Ouroboroid
1 Craterhoof Behemoth
1 Finale of Devastation
1 Cultivator Colossus
1 Green Sun's Zenith
1 Command Tower
1 Ba Sing Se
1 Karn's Bastion
1 Castle Garenbrig
33 Forest
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