Avatar’s Most Powerful New Commanders | 709

The Command Zone

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🗓️ 7 November 2025

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Magic’s Avatar: The Last Airbender is finally emerging from the iceberg, ready to bring balance to Commander. But what if you don’t want balance? What if you want… POWER? Say no more! This episode, we’re laying out the most powerful legends from Avatar for your viewing pleasure. From humble cabbage merchants to mighty firelords, we’ll show you the strategies and synergies you need to brew a deck that can bend the elements (and your opponents) to your will! -------- JOIN OUR PATREON: Support the show and become a Patron! Be a part of our community, receive awesome rewards, and more! https://www.patreon.com/commandzone -------- RAYCON: Get 30% off SITEWIDE on Raycon audio products like the new Essential Open Earbuds during their Black Friday and Cyber Monday sale at: https://www.buyraycon.com/command FABLETICS: Become a Fabletics VIP to get 80% off EVERYTHING plus monthly credits toward items, bundles, and outfits. Sign up at: http://www.fabletics.com/command SHOPIFY: Power your business with Shopify. Start your one-dollar-per-month trial period today by going to: https://www.shopify.com/tcz -------- CARD KINGDOM: The Command Zone is sponsored by Card Kingdom! If you want to receive your cards in one safe package and experience the best customer service, make sure to order your Magic cards, sealed product, accessories, and more at Card Kingdom: http://www.cardkingdom.com/command ARCHIDEKT: Discover, build, catalog, and playtest on Archidekt, the deck-building website that makes it easy to brew brand new lists or manage your old favorites. Go to http://www.archidekt.com/commandzone to get started today! ULTRA PRO: Huge thanks to Ultra PRO for sponsoring this episode! Be sure to check out their amazing APEX sleeves and super classy MANA 8 product line. If you want to keep your cards protected and support the show, visit: https://ultrapro.com/command -------- Relevant Links: JLK's Elesh Norn Decklist: https://archidekt.com/decks/4664167/jlks_elesh_norn_game_knights_59 -------- Follow us on TikTok: @thecommandzone Follow us on Instagram: @CommandCast Follow us on Bluesky: @commandcast.bsky.social Follow us on Twitter: @CommandCast @JoshLeeKwai @jfwong @wachelreeks Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/commandcast/ Email us: [email protected] -------- Commander Rules and Ban List: https://magic.wizards.com/en/banned-restricted-list Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:31.5	Greetings, humans. You have entered the command zone. Your destination for all aspects of Elder Dragon Highlander.
0:40.0	Enjoy your stay.
0:43.2	Hello everybody and welcome back to another episode of the Command Zone podcast.
0:47.1	I'm your host, Rachel Weeks.
0:48.2	I'm Jimmy Wong.
0:49.4	And we're talking about Avatar.
0:52.5	The Lust.
0:53.6	Airbender, A-T-L-A. Not the blue ones. The blue arrow. There are blue cards in the set. There are. No, yes. The arrow down Aang's face. Yes. We're going to talk about all of the commanders that you need to know how to build them, how we'd build them anyway, and some cool cards that go in each one of them.
1:13.3	And we're going to get started with one of the hottest legends in the set.
1:17.1	Honestly, exceptionally powerful, been spoiled for a little bit.
1:20.2	We're talking about Toff, the first metal bender.
1:23.1	Yeah, Toff is a big fan favorite.
1:26.3	I absolutely love Toff. This is one red, green, and the white for a 3-3 human warrior ally. And two big lines of text here. The first is non-token artifacts you control are lands in addition to their other types. However, they do not gain the ability to tap to add for mana. They are just lands. And then the second ability is at the beginning of
1:44.6	your end step, Earthbend 2. EarthBend is a new mechanic from Avatar and Toff is going to Earthbend.
1:50.9	So it means target land you control becomes a zero zero creature with haste that's still a land.
1:55.3	When you put two plus and plus encounters on it, when it dies or is exiled, return it to the
2:00.3	battlefield tapped. So takes a land,
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