Bumi Puts the Boomy in Infinite Combat EDH Decks

Last updated on November 1, 2025

Bumi, Unleashed | Illustration by Brigitte Roka

Step aside, Anzrag, the Quake-Mole. Gruul’s getting a new extra combat commander with Avatar: The Last Airbender… and it comes with a two-card infinite combo!

As soon as he was officially revealed, Magic players on reddit found ways to make him smash face, untap lands, and chain infinite extra combats until your foes are dead, using just one other card.

And that’s Bumi, Unleashed just warming up, because there’s at least one other combo with who’s right now the most popular commander from Avatar: Toph, the First Metalbender!

How To Unleash Bumi

Ashaya, Soul of the Wild – art by Chase Stone

Bumi, Unleashed is a 5/4 trampler, who costs , and has two triggered abilities:

The first is, “When Bumi enters, earthbend 4.” Earthbend is one of the new mechanics from TLA, which turns a land into a land creature with haste and N  +1/+1 counters on it. And, if the land dies or is exiled, you can return it tapped.

Then things get spicier: Bumi has a saboteur ability that untaps all your lands, and then adds an additional combat phase in which only land creatures can attack.

But what if all your creatures were land creatures… including Bumi Unleashed, so he can attack again, and again, and again? 

That’s exactly what Ashaya, Soul of the Wild is here for!

Ashaya, Soul of the Wild turns all your nontoken creatures into Forest lands, in addition to their other types. So if you have Ashaya in play and Bumi connects with an opponent, then all your lands and all your nontoken creatures will untap…and be able to attack again.

… and if Bumi deals combat damage again to one of your opponents, then you trigger another combat phase.

But here’s the cherry on top: If you have Ashaya, Soul of the Wild already in play when Bumi, Unleashed enters the battlefield, Bumi can earthbend himself.

“Ashaya is generally great with every Earthbender,” notes u/McWaffeleisen, “since she allows them to bend themselves and makes them almost unkillable that way.”

And earthbend gives Bumi haste, meaning he can attack the turn you play it!

Playing Toph

Toph, the First Metalbender – Illustration by Eilene Cherie

There’s another combo that was quickly discovered by redditors, in this case involving Toph, the First Metalbender and Mycosynth Lattice.

This is how it works:

• Mycosynth Lattice makes all permanents into artifacts.
• Toph makes nontoken artifacts into lands (also in addition to their other types),
• Therefore, all your nontoken permanents become both artifacts and lands.

In other words: With Mycosynth and Toph in play, Bumi’s ability affects all your nontoken permanents! You can untap all of them if Bumi connects, and attack again with all your creatures.

It goes without saying that this is a more complex combo than Ashaya’s (you need three cards in play rather than two, and play with a Naya commander rather than a Gruul commander).

Judge! Stuff to Keep in Mind

Bruvac the Grandiloquent – Illustration by Ekaterina Burmak

Remember that Bumi must deal combat damage to a player each time to trigger. If fully blocked, or if your opponent has some sort of protection like a fog, Bumi won’t fire off. And if you use Bumi to deal direct damage then it won’t fire off, either, since it’s not combat damage. 

Bumi’s earthbend doesn’t untap the land; it just makes it a hasty land creature with counters. And, remember, it turns the land into a 0/0 creature (and then adds counters to it), which means that if Bumi earthbends himself, he actually shrinks (from his base 5/4, he becomes a 0/0 creature land with four +1/+1 counters on it, therefore he turns into a 4/4 if he auto-bends himself).

If you have Ashaya, Soul of the Wild, your nontoken creatures are also Forests, which means they can tap for green mana.

That’s not true for Toph, though. Toph, the First Metalbender doesn’t grant mana abilities to your artifacts; becoming lands is not enough by itself to let them tap for mana.