Undead Hoard Reanimator by user6945955

Format: Commander

Commander: Teval, the Balanced Scale

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 59

Deck overview

This deck is a high-synergy Sultai Reanimator strategy commanded by Teval, the Balanced Scale. The game plan focuses on rapidly stocking the graveyard using targeted tutors like Entomb and Buried Alive, along with deep self-mill from dredge cards like Life from the Loam and Stinkweed Imp. Once key threats enter the graveyard, the deck uses efficient reanimation spells to deploy game-warping creatures such as Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur, Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger, and Archon of Cruelty ahead of curve. Teval generates continuous card and board advantage by returning milled lands and producing 2/2 Zombie Druid tokens whenever cards leave the graveyard. These tokens serve dual purposes: tapping for Gilt-Leaf Archdruid to steal opposing lands, or providing a wide board that closes the game via Craterhoof Behemoth or Overwhelming Stampede. The deck balances heavy proactive locks with versatile removal and repeatable recursion engines.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Afterlife from the Loam
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archon of Cruelty
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Barad-dûr
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Cavalier of Thorns
  • 1 Cephalid Coliseum
  • 1 Colossal Grave-Reaver
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conduit of Worlds
  • 1 Conqueror's Flail
  • 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
  • 1 Crypt of Agadeem
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Diviner of Mist
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exhume
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fauna Shaman
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Flare of Denial
  • 1 Flayer of Loyalties
  • 1 Floral Evoker
  • 1 Foreboding Landscape
  • 5 Forest
  • 1 Formidable Speaker
  • 1 Gemstone Mine
  • 1 Gilt-Leaf Archdruid
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Golgari Thug
  • 1 Grave Titan
  • 1 Greater Good
  • 1 Hedron Crab
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
  • 1 Kishla Trawlers
  • 1 Kotis, Sibsig Champion
  • 1 Life from the Loam
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Lotus Cobra
  • 1 Memorial to Folly
  • 1 Millikin
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Noxious Gearhulk
  • 1 Nyx Weaver
  • 1 Opulent Palace
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Overwhelming Stampede
  • 1 Pact of Negation
  • 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
  • 1 Putrefy
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Ravenous Chupacabra
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Rishkar's Expertise
  • 1 Scatter to the Winds
  • 1 Shigeki, Jukai Visionary
  • 1 Skull Prophet
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Steward of the Harvest
  • 1 Stinkweed Imp
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Sylvan Caryatid
  • 1 Sylvan Safekeeper
  • 1 Tear Asunder
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Teval's Judgment
  • 1 Teval, the Balanced Scale
  • 1 The Black Gate
  • 1 The Gitrog Monster
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger
  • 1 Welcome the Dead
  • 1 Wonder
  • 1 World Shaper