Teval sultai v1 by user5169603

Format: Commander

Commander: Teval, the Balanced Scale

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 35

Deck overview

This deck is a Sultai Landfall and Reanimator strategy commanded by Teval, the Balanced Scale. The game plan revolves around filling the graveyard through self-mill creatures and dredge effects, then leveraging Teval's combat trigger to ramp lands directly from the graveyard while generating 2/2 Zombie Druid tokens. Mid-game turns focus on expanding mana resources with land-drop enablers like Sakura-Tribe Scout and The Gitrog Monster, culminating in massive board presence via Avenger of Zendikar, Scute Swarm, or Living Death. Evasion is granted by binning Wonder, allowing wide creature swarms to fly over blockers for lethal damage. The deck also includes a landfall combo utilizing Retreat to Coralhelm, a land-dropper, and a bounce land to generate infinite landfall triggers with Ob Nixilis, the Fallen or Hedron Crab. While vulnerable to mass graveyard exile and lacking countermagic, its high density of recursion provides substantial resilience against board wipes.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Avenger of Zendikar
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Cauldron of Essence
  • 1 Cephalid Coliseum
  • 1 Colossal Grave-Reaver
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conduit of Worlds
  • 1 Crypt of Agadeem
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Death Begets Life
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dimir Aqueduct
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Drownyard Temple
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Flooded Grove
  • 1 Foreboding Landscape
  • 4 Forest
  • 1 Gifts Ungiven
  • 1 Golgari Rot Farm
  • 1 Grapple with the Past
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Harrow
  • 1 Hedron Crab
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Icetill Explorer
  • 1 Insidious Roots
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Kheru Goldkeeper
  • 1 Kodama of the East Tree
  • 1 Kotis, Sibsig Champion
  • 1 Life from the Loam
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Lotus Cobra
  • 1 Memorial to Folly
  • 1 Mindslaver
  • 1 Muldrotha, the Gravetide
  • 1 Necromantic Selection
  • 1 Ob Nixilis, the Fallen
  • 1 Opulent Palace
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Putrefy
  • 1 Rampaging Baloths
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Retreat to Coralhelm
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Scout
  • 1 Scaled Herbalist
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Simic Growth Chamber
  • 1 Singularity Rupture
  • 1 Six
  • 1 Skull Prophet
  • 1 Skyshroud Ranger
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Tear Asunder
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Teval's Judgment
  • 1 Teval, the Balanced Scale
  • 1 The Gitrog Monster
  • 1 Timeless Witness
  • 1 Tortured Existence
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Umbral Collar Zealot
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Wastewood Verge
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wight of the Reliquary
  • 1 Willowrush Verge
  • 1 Woe Strider
  • 1 Wonder
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast
  • 1 Zombify