(Reanimator) Teval, the Balanced Scale by tallyscn

Format: Commander

Commander: Teval, the Balanced Scale

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 33

Deck overview

This deck is a Sultai midrange graveyard engine helmed by Teval, the Balanced Scale. The game plan revolves around accelerating mana early with dense 1-to-2 CMC ramp, deploying Teval on Turn 3, and attacking on Turn 4 to initiate a steady loop of self-mill, land recursion, and 2/2 Zombie Druid token generation. As cards leave the graveyard through land returns, reanimation spells like Victimize and Animate Dead, or escape mechanics via Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath, Teval and cards like Insidious Roots and Teval's Judgment continuously generate board presence and resource advantage. The midgame transitions into high-impact board states using heavyweight payoffs such as The Gitrog Monster, The Scarab God, Grave Titan, and Muldrotha, the Gravetide. The deck reaches its critical onset around Turn 6, leveraging mass reanimation like Living Death or evasive aerial swarm attacks enabled by Wonder in the graveyard, closing the game by Turn 8.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrupt Decay
  • 1 Aftermath Analyst
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Awaken the Honored Dead
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Cauldron of Essence
  • 1 Colossal Grave-Reaver
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conduit of Worlds
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crypt of Agadeem
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Drown in the Loch
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Elves of Deep Shadow
  • 1 Escape Tunnel
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Evolutionary Leap
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fang, Fearless l'Cie
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fertile Ground
  • 1 Flooded Grove
  • 1 Foreboding Landscape
  • 5 Forest
  • 1 Glacierwood Siege
  • 1 Golgari Rot Farm
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Grave Titan
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Hedge Shredder
  • 1 Hedron Crab
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Insidious Roots
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Kheru Goldkeeper
  • 1 Kishla Skimmer
  • 1 Life from the Loam
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Lost Monarch of Ifnir
  • 1 Maelstrom Pulse
  • 1 Meren of Clan Nel Toth
  • 1 Mole Man, Moloid Master
  • 1 Muldrotha, the Gravetide
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Opulent Palace
  • 1 Overflowing Basin
  • 1 Overwhelming Remorse
  • 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
  • 1 Revitalizing Repast // Old-Growth Grove
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Rise of the Witch-king
  • 1 Shimmerwilds Growth
  • 1 Sidisi, Brood Tyrant
  • 1 Singularity Rupture
  • 1 Skull Prophet
  • 1 Sodden Verdure
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stitch Together
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Tainted Wood
  • 1 Tatyova, Benthic Druid
  • 1 Tear Asunder
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Teval's Judgment
  • 1 Teval, the Balanced Scale
  • 1 The Gitrog Monster
  • 1 The Scarab God
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Titans' Nest
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Undercity Informer
  • 1 Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Viridescent Bog
  • 1 Wight of the Reliquary
  • 1 Will of the Sultai
  • 1 Wonder
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast