Sultai Arisen (Upgrade Plan) by atd12194

Format: Commander

Commander: Teval, the Balanced Scale

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 48

Deck overview

This Sultai deck is helmed by Teval, the Balanced Scale, focusing on an aggressive, highly synergistic lands-and-graveyard engine. The strategy accelerates in the opening turns with efficient 1-2 CMC ramp creatures and land search, deploying Teval on Turn 3. Attacking with Teval mills cards, returns lands directly to the battlefield, and generates 2/2 black Zombie Druid tokens whenever cards leave the graveyard. The midgame compounds resource advantages through recurring land recursion engines like Lumra, Bellow of the Woods, Aftermath Analyst, and Six, alongside card flow powerhouses such as The Gitrog Monster and Life from the Loam. The deck closes games around Turn 6 by converting wide token boards into lethal overrun combat via Craterhoof Behemoth or Finale of Devastation, or through infinite sacrifice loops with Gravecrawler and Phyrexian Altar. A robust interaction suite protects key windows and disrupts opposing threats.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrupt Decay
  • 1 Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait
  • 1 Aftermath Analyst
  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Amulet of Vigor
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
  • 1 Badgermole Cub
  • 1 Beifong's Bounty Hunters
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Blossoming Tortoise
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Colossal Grave-Reaver
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
  • 1 Culling Ritual
  • 1 Dakmor Salvage
  • 1 Deathrite Shaman
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Disciple of Freyalise // Garden of Freyalise
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Endurance
  • 1 Exploration Broodship
  • 1 Fanatic of Rhonas
  • 1 Festering Gulch
  • 1 Field of the Dead
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Finale of Devastation
  • 1 Forest
  • 1 Formidable Speaker
  • 1 Glacial Chasm
  • 1 Golgari Rot Farm
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Hedge Maze
  • 1 Hedge Shredder
  • 1 Hedron Crab
  • 1 Herd Heirloom
  • 1 Icetill Explorer
  • 1 Insidious Fungus
  • 1 Insidious Roots
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Kheru Goldkeeper
  • 1 Laboratory Maniac
  • 1 Lazotep Quarry
  • 1 Lethal Scheme
  • 1 Life from the Loam
  • 1 Lotus Field
  • 1 Lotuslight Dancers
  • 1 Lumra, Bellow of the Woods
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Molt Tender
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Nature's Rhythm
  • 1 Nurturing Peatland
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Overlord of the Balemurk
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Plaza of Heroes
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Shifting Woodland
  • 1 Six
  • 1 Snow-Covered Forest
  • 1 Starting Town
  • 1 Steward of the Harvest
  • 1 Strip Mine
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Sylvan Safekeeper
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Talon Gates of Madara
  • 1 Teval, the Balanced Scale
  • 1 The Gitrog Monster
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Timeless Witness
  • 1 Tortured Existence
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Underground Mortuary
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Walk-In Closet // Forgotten Cellar
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wight of the Reliquary
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
  • 1 Zagoth Triome