Teval by user3778769

Format: Commander

Commander: Teval, the Balanced Scale

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 41

Deck overview

Teval, the Balanced Scale commands a resilient Sultai graveyard-landfall midrange deck that converts self-mill and land churn into overwhelming board presence and lethal burst damage. The game plan accelerates in the opening turns with efficient mana dorks and self-milling enablers such as Satyr Wayfinder, Skull Prophet, and Ripples of Undeath. Once Teval attacks on Turn 4, it establishes a compounding engine that ramps lands from the graveyard while generating 2/2 Zombie Druid tokens. Mid-game turns scale board pressure through powerful value engines like Six, The Scarab God, and Insidious Roots. The deck threatens game-ending transitions on Turn 6 through mass reanimation with Living Death, wide landfall swarms with Avenger of Zendikar and Wonder, or direct table-wide life loss via Lord of Extinction sacrificed to Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord. Robust interaction including Fierce Guardianship, Cyclonic Rift, and Sylvan Safekeeper ensures protection and disruption across every phase.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait
• 1 Aftermath Analyst
• 1 Altar of Dementia
• 1 Amulet of Vigor
• 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
• 1 Animate Dead
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Avenger of Zendikar
• 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
• 1 Beifong's Bounty Hunters
• 1 Bloodghast
• 1 Bojuka Bog
• 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
• 1 Breeding Pool
• 1 Cauldron of Essence
• 1 Colossal Grave-Reaver
• 1 Command Beacon
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Conduit of Worlds
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Crop Rotation
• 1 Culling Ritual
• 1 Cultivate
• 1 Cyclonic Rift
• 1 Dakmor Salvage
• 1 Darkslick Shores
• 1 Diviner of Mist
• 1 Dread Return
• 1 Drownyard Temple
• 1 Entomb
• 1 Essence Anchor
• 1 Eternal Witness
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Exploration Broodship
• 1 Festering Gulch
• 1 Field of the Dead
• 1 Fierce Guardianship
• 5 Forest
• 1 Gravecrawler
• 1 Hedge Maze
• 1 Hedge Shredder
• 1 Hedron Crab
• 1 Hinterland Harbor
• 1 Icetill Explorer
• 1 Insidious Roots
• 5 Island
• 1 Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
• 1 Kheru Goldkeeper
• 1 Kishla Skimmer
• 1 Life from the Loam
• 1 Living Death
• 1 Lord of Extinction
• 1 Lotus Cobra
• 1 Lotuslight Dancers
• 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
• 1 Misty Rainforest
• 1 Morphic Pool
• 1 Otawara, Soaring City
• 1 Overlord of the Balemurk
• 1 Phyrexian Altar
• 1 Reanimate
• 1 Rhystic Study
• 1 Ripples of Undeath
• 1 River Kelpie
• 1 Satyr Wayfinder
• 1 Shifting Woodland
• 1 Shigeki, Jukai Visionary
• 1 Sidisi, Brood Tyrant
• 1 Six
• 1 Skull Prophet
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Springbloom Druid
• 5 Swamp
• 1 Swan Song
• 1 Sylvan Safekeeper
• 1 Teval's Judgment
• 1 Teval, the Balanced Scale
• 1 The Meathook Massacre
• 1 The Scarab God
• 1 Toxic Deluge
• 1 Undercity Sewers
• 1 Underground Mortuary
• 1 Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath
• 1 Victimize
• 1 Wight of the Reliquary
• 1 Will of the Sultai
• 1 Wonder
• 1 Woodland Cemetery