(8.7) Teval, The Balenced Scale (new upgrades) by ayjay

Format: Commander

Commander: Teval, the Balanced Scale

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 42

Deck overview

This deck is a high-power Sultai graveyard reanimator deck commanded by Teval, the Balanced Scale. It accelerates early with efficient 1–2 CMC mana dorks and ramp spells to cast Teval on Turn 3. Attacking with Teval mills cards, ramps lands from the graveyard, and spawns Zombie Druid tokens whenever cards leave the graveyard. The deck leverages dense self-mill engines like Hermit Druid, Mesmeric Orb, and Life from the Loam to fuel powerful reanimation spells including Reanimate, Living Death, and Victimize. It closes games on Turns 5–6 by reanimating game-ending threats like Craterhoof Behemoth to trample over opponents, draining the table with Syr Konrad, the Grim, or generating massive mana and token swarms with Gravecrawler and Phyrexian Altar. A lean interactive suite protects key plays and answers opposing threats efficiently.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrupt Decay
  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Armored Scrapgorger
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Azusa, Lost but Seeking
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Blooming Marsh
  • 1 Botanical Sanctum
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Chthonian Nightmare
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Culling Ritual
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darkslick Shores
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deathrite Shaman
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exploration
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fanatic of Rhonas
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Finale of Devastation
  • 1 Flooded Grove
  • 1 Force of Vigor
  • 4 Forest
  • 1 Formidable Speaker
  • 1 Gemstone Mine
  • 1 Gifts Ungiven
  • 1 Glacial Chasm
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Hedron Crab
  • 1 Hermit Druid
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Hoarding Broodlord
  • 1 Icetill Explorer
  • 1 Insidious Roots
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Kheru Goldkeeper
  • 1 Life from the Loam
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Lotus Cobra
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Mesmeric Orb
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Noxious Revival
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Persist
  • 1 Personal Tutor
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Saw in Half
  • 1 Shifting Woodland
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Six
  • 1 Snapcaster Mage
  • 1 Snarling Gorehound
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Squirming Emergence
  • 1 Strip Mine
  • 1 Stubborn Denial
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Teval, the Balanced Scale
  • 1 Three Tree City
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Titans' Nest
  • 1 Tortured Existence
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wight of the Reliquary
  • 1 Wishclaw Talisman
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth