Itsss Baaack Base: TB5 w20$L

Format: Commander

Commander: Teval, the Balanced Scale

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 43

Deck overview

This Sultai deck is an optimized graveyard and lands-matter midrange strategy led by Teval, the Balanced Scale. The deck uses low-cost mana dorks and land ramp to cast Teval by Turn 3, utilizing Teval's combat trigger to mill cards, ramp lands from the graveyard, and generate 2/2 Zombie Druid creature tokens. High-density self-mill from cards like Mesmeric Orb, Six, and Life from the Loam rapidly loads the graveyard with utility lands, massive threats, and reanimation targets. The deck transitions into a lethal threat around Turn 5 by resolving explosive spells such as Living Death, Splendid Reclamation with Field of the Dead, or The Gitrog Monster. With Wonder granting evasion, the wide token swarm and reanimated creatures attack over two combat turns, backed by Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord flings. A lean interaction package featuring Force of Vigor, Mindbreak Trap, and Veil of Summer ensures reliable protection and board control throughout the game.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrupt Decay
  • 1 Ad Nauseam
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Carpet of Flowers
  • 1 Cephalid Coliseum
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Collector Ouphe
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Deathrite Shaman
  • 1 Demonic Consultation
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Drownyard Temple
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fetid Pools
  • 1 Field of the Dead
  • 1 Flooded Grove
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Force of Vigor
  • 4 Forest
  • 1 Fyndhorn Elves
  • 1 Grapple with the Past
  • 1 Grisly Salvage
  • 1 Hedron Crab
  • 1 Hermit Druid
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Ignoble Hierarch
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
  • 1 Life from the Loam
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Meren of Clan Nel Toth
  • 1 Mesmeric Orb
  • 1 Mindbreak Trap
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Necroblossom Snarl
  • 1 Necrologia
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Pact of Negation
  • 1 Persist
  • 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Satyr Wayfinder
  • 1 Shifting Woodland
  • 1 Shigeki, Jukai Visionary
  • 1 Six
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Splendid Reclamation
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Tainted Wood
  • 1 Tasigur, the Golden Fang
  • 1 Tear Asunder
  • 1 Teval, the Balanced Scale
  • 1 The Gitrog Monster
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Timeless Witness
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wonder
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 World Shaper
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast
  • 1 Zagoth Triome