From the grave by Calastiel

Format: Commander

Commander: Teval, the Balanced Scale

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a Sultai self-mill graveyard-value deck helmed by Teval, the Balanced Scale, who mills on attack, recurs a land from the graveyard, and generates 2/2 Zombie Druid tokens whenever cards leave the graveyard. The deck's plan is to fill the graveyard through a dense suite of mill effects - Sidisi, Brood Tyrant, Six, The Wise Mothman, Mesmeric Orb, Out of the Tombs, Deranged Assistant, and Skull Prophet - then extract overwhelming value through recursion engines like Muldrotha, the Gravetide, Meren of Clan Nel Toth, and Six's retrace. Primary wins are the Mindcrank + Syr Konrad, the Grim or Bloodchief Ascension mill-out combo, with a fallback of going wide via The Mycotyrant and Broodspinner tokens. The deck is a grindy, solitaire-style value engine that wins through attrition and incremental advantage.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aftermath Analyst
  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Auroral Procession
  • 1 Azusa, Lost but Seeking
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Broodspinner
  • 1 Cabaretti Courtyard
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Coiling Oracle
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cranial Archive
  • 1 Cryptic Caves
  • 1 Cryptolith Rite
  • 1 Dakmor Salvage
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Dawnhand Dissident
  • 1 Demolition Field
  • 1 Deranged Assistant
  • 1 Doc Aurlock, Grizzled Genius
  • 1 Doom Whisperer
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Emergence Zone
  • 1 Endurance
  • 1 Esper Panorama
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fauna Shaman
  • 1 Fell Gravship
  • 7 Forest
  • 1 Glacierwood Siege
  • 1 Havengul Lich
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Kheru Goldkeeper
  • 1 Leyline of Anticipation
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Lluwen, Imperfect Naturalist
  • 1 Lotus Cobra
  • 1 Maestros Theater
  • 1 Meren of Clan Nel Toth
  • 1 Mesmeric Orb
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Muldrotha, the Gravetide
  • 1 Out of the Tombs
  • 1 Oversold Cemetery
  • 1 Palantír of Orthanc
  • 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
  • 1 Polluted Cistern // Dim Oubliette
  • 1 Promising Vein
  • 1 Ramunap Excavator
  • 1 Reclamation Sage
  • 1 Regrowth
  • 1 Risen Reef
  • 1 River Kelpie
  • 1 Ruin Crab
  • 1 Satyr Wayfinder
  • 1 Seedborn Muse
  • 1 Seedship Broodtender
  • 1 Shigeki, Jukai Visionary
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Shire Terrace
  • 1 Sidisi, Brood Tyrant
  • 1 Six
  • 1 Skull Prophet
  • 1 Sméagol, Helpful Guide
  • 2 Snow-Covered Island
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul Exchange
  • 1 Spelunking
  • 1 Starfield Vocalist
  • 1 Stillness in Motion
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Sylvan Ranger
  • 1 Sylvan Safekeeper
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Teval, the Balanced Scale
  • 1 The Gitrog Monster
  • 1 The Mycotyrant
  • 1 The Wise Mothman
  • 1 Timeless Witness
  • 1 Twilight Diviner
  • 1 Umbral Collar Zealot
  • 1 Underrealm Lich
  • 1 Unearth
  • 1 Warped Landscape
  • 1 Wonder
  • 1 Yarok, the Desecrated