2.0 Turbo by user9309110

Format: Commander

Commander: Teval, the Balanced Scale

Bracket: 5

DeckCheck Threat Index: 88

Deck overview

This Sultai deck is an optimized competitive combo list centered on fast mana, dense tutoring, and compact instant-speed win lines. The primary game plan accelerates into a Turn 3 win with Thassa's Oracle and Demonic Consultation, or leverages Ad Nauseam and Necropotence to draw a critical mass of fast mana and interaction. If the primary stack-based win is contested, the deck seamlessly transitions into graveyard-centric secondary routes. Teval, the Balanced Scale acts as an engine piece, generating Zombie tokens whenever cards leave the graveyard, which powers an infinite sacrifice and mana loop with Gravecrawler and Phyrexian Altar into Blood Artist or The Meathook Massacre. Supported by a world-class interaction suite consisting of free counterspells, efficient removal, and targeted protection like Veil of Summer, the deck consistently threatens protected game-ending sequences early while maintaining robust recovery options against opposing disruption.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrupt Decay
  • 1 Ad Nauseam
  • 1 Aftermath Analyst
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Bayou
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Chain of Vapor
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dakmor Salvage
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deathrite Shaman
  • 1 Demonic Consultation
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Eldritch Evolution
  • 1 Elves of Deep Shadow
  • 1 Elvish Spirit Guide
  • 1 Endurance
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Finale of Devastation
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Flusterstorm
  • 1 Forbidden Orchard
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Force of Vigor
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Forest
  • 1 Gaea's Cradle
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Green Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Grim Monolith
  • 1 Grim Tutor
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Life from the Loam
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Malevolent Hermit // Benevolent Geist
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Mental Misstep
  • 1 Mindbreak Trap
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mox Diamond
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Nature's Claim
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Pact of Negation
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Rain of Filth
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Shifting Woodland
  • 1 Six
  • 1 Snow-Covered Forest
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spell Pierce
  • 1 Survival of the Fittest
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Teval, the Balanced Scale
  • 1 Thassa's Oracle
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 Tortured Existence
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Tropical Island
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wishclaw Talisman
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth