Teval, the Balanced Scale by user4253385

Format: Commander

Commander: Teval, the Balanced Scale

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 40

Deck overview

Teval, the Balanced Scale leads a Sultai graveyard midrange strategy that combines self-mill with landfall and leaves-graveyard triggers. The deck accelerates in early turns using ramp spells like Farseek and Sakura-Tribe Elder to deploy Teval by Turn 3 or 4. Once attacking, Teval mills cards, returns lands to trigger landfall, and generates 2/2 Zombie Druid tokens whenever cards leave the graveyard. Value engines like Life from the Loam, Teval's Judgment, and Kishla Skimmer maintain continuous resource flow. The deck closes games around Turn 6 or 7 using mass reanimation spells like Living Death and Rise of the Dark Realms, or by sacrificing massive creatures like Lord of Extinction to Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord for direct table-wide damage. High functional redundancy across self-mill enablers and reanimation spells gives the engine dependable mid-game resilience.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aftermath Analyst
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Avenger of Zendikar
  • 1 Bitter Triumph
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Casualties of War
  • 1 Cauldron of Essence
  • 1 Cephalid Coliseum
  • 1 Colossal Grave-Reaver
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consuming Aberration
  • 1 Contaminated Aquifer
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crypt of Agadeem
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Disciple of Bolas
  • 1 Diviner of Mist
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Drownyard Temple
  • 1 Essence Anchor
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exdeath, Void Warlock // Neo Exdeath, Dimension's End
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fetid Pools
  • 1 Floral Evoker
  • 1 Foreboding Landscape
  • 6 Forest
  • 1 Golgari Rot Farm
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Grisly Salvage
  • 1 Grist, Voracious Larva // Grist, the Plague Swarm
  • 1 Haunted Mire
  • 1 Hedron Crab
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
  • 1 Jungle Hollow
  • 1 Junji, the Midnight Sky
  • 1 Kishla Skimmer
  • 1 Kotis, Sibsig Champion
  • 1 Lethal Scheme
  • 1 Life from the Loam
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Lord of Extinction
  • 1 Lord of the Forsaken
  • 1 Memorial to Folly
  • 1 Meren of Clan Nel Toth
  • 1 Midnight Tilling
  • 1 Millikin
  • 1 Multani, Yavimaya's Avatar
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Nissa of Shadowed Boughs
  • 1 Noxious Gearhulk
  • 1 Nyx Weaver
  • 1 Ob Nixilis, the Fallen
  • 1 Opulent Palace
  • 1 Putrefy
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 River Kelpie
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Satyr Wayfinder
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Shigeki, Jukai Visionary
  • 1 Sidisi, Brood Tyrant
  • 1 Skull Prophet
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul Manipulation
  • 1 Steward of the Harvest
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Tatyova, Benthic Druid
  • 1 Tear Asunder
  • 1 Temple of Malady
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Teval's Judgment
  • 1 Teval, the Balanced Scale
  • 1 Through the Forest Gate
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger
  • 1 Will of the Sultai
  • 1 Woe Strider
  • 1 Wonder
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Worthy Cost