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Format: Commander

Commander: Teval, the Balanced Scale

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 61

Deck overview

This Sultai deck is helmed by Teval, the Balanced Scale, blending high-velocity self-mill, graveyard reanimation, land recursion, and aristocrats combo lines. The deck leverages efficient mana dorks and dark rituals to deploy Teval by Turn 3, immediately converting attack triggers into land ramp, card advantage, and 2/2 Zombie Druid tokens. A deep tutor suite consisting of Buried Alive, Entomb, Unmarked Grave, and Beseech the Mirror sets up redundant win conditions. On Turn 5, the deck pivots into an immediate table kill by casting Living Death or Victimize to return Craterhoof Behemoth with evasion from Wonder and Filth, flinging a massive Lord of Extinction with Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord, or executing an infinite sacrifice loop with Gravecrawler, Phyrexian Altar, and Mirkwood Bats. Supported by flexible interaction and resilient recovery paths, the list provides consistent, high-impact gameplay.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Adrix and Nev, Twincasters
• 1 Animate Dead
• 1 Assassin's Trophy
• 1 Avenger of Zendikar
• 1 Baleful Mastery
• 1 Barkchannel Pathway // Tidechannel Pathway
• 1 Beseech the Mirror
• 1 Birds of Paradise
• 1 Black Market Connections
• 1 Bloodghast
• 1 Brainstorm
• 1 Breach the Multiverse
• 1 Breeding Pool
• 1 Buried Alive
• 1 Cabal Ritual
• 1 Carrion Feeder
• 1 Cephalid Coliseum
• 1 Circular Logic
• 1 Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway
• 1 Colossal Grave-Reaver
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
• 1 Crop Rotation
• 1 Culling the Weak
• 1 Dakmor Salvage
• 1 Dark Ritual
• 1 Darkbore Pathway // Slitherbore Pathway
• 1 Deathcap Glade
• 1 Desecrated Tomb
• 1 Disallow
• 1 Emergence Zone
• 1 Entomb
• 1 Eternal Witness
• 1 Exhume
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Fauna Shaman
• 1 Feldon's Cane
• 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
• 1 Filth
• 4 Forest
• 1 Gravecrawler
• 1 Insidious Roots
• 3 Island
• 1 Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
• 1 Jumbo Cactuar
• 1 Living Death
• 1 Logic Knot
• 1 Lord of Extinction
• 1 Lotus Field
• 1 Massacre Wurm
• 1 Mirkwood Bats
• 1 Notion Thief
• 1 Overgrown Tomb
• 1 Parallel Lives
• 1 Peat Bog
• 1 Phyrexian Altar
• 1 Phyrexian Tower
• 1 Polluted Delta
• 1 Putrid Imp
• 1 Reanimate
• 1 Rejuvenating Springs
• 1 Revitalizing Repast // Old-Growth Grove
• 1 Ripples of Undeath
• 1 Scute Swarm
• 1 Seedborn Muse
• 1 Sheoldred, Whispering One
• 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Stitch Together
• 1 Swallowed by Leviathan
• 3 Swamp
• 1 Tear Asunder
• 1 Temporal Trespass
• 1 Teval's Judgment
• 1 Teval, the Balanced Scale
• 1 The Gitrog Monster
• 1 Undercity Sewers
• 1 Undergrowth Stadium
• 1 Unmarked Grave
• 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1 Urza's Cave
• 1 Verdant Catacombs
• 1 Vicious Rivalry
• 1 Victimize
• 1 Voidslime
• 1 Watery Grave
• 1 Wight of the Reliquary
• 1 Will of the Abzan
• 1 Windfall
• 1 Wonder
• 1 World Shaper
• 1 Zagoth Triome