GraveDragon by 43cats

Format: Commander

Commander: Teval, the Balanced Scale

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a Sultai graveyard-matters value engine helmed by Teval, the Balanced Scale, who mills on attack, recurs a land from the graveyard, and converts every card leaving the graveyard into a 2/2 Zombie Druid token. The deck is built around a dense self-mill and land-recursion package, with a remarkable number of redundant "commanders in the 99" - Sidisi, Brood Tyrant, Muldrotha, the Gravetide, The Gitrog Monster, Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait, and Mole Man, Moloid Master all advance the same plan. It wins through grinding: a zombie swarm pumped by Eldrazi Monument, landfall drain from Ob Nixilis, the Fallen, Avenger of Zendikar token beats, and The Scarab God's upkeep drain. There is no fast combo; this is a deliberate, engine-driven midrange deck that aims to out-value the table over turns 8-10.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Auroral Procession
  • 1 Avenger of Zendikar
  • 1 Bayou
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Breach the Multiverse
  • 1 Bucklebury Ferry
  • 1 Cauldron of Essence
  • 1 Cephalid Coliseum
  • 1 Colossal Grave-Reaver
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Countersquall
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Crypt of Agadeem
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Drown in the Loch
  • 1 Drownyard Temple
  • 1 Dryad Arbor
  • 1 Eldrazi Monument
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Foreboding Landscape
  • 6 Forest
  • 1 Grapple with the Past
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Harrow
  • 1 Hedge Shredder
  • 1 Hedron Crab
  • 1 Insidious Roots
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Kheru Goldkeeper
  • 1 Kishla Skimmer
  • 1 Lethal Scheme
  • 1 Life from the Loam
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Memorial to Folly
  • 1 Millikin
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mole Man, Moloid Master
  • 1 Muddle the Mixture
  • 1 Muldrotha, the Gravetide
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Ob Nixilis, the Fallen
  • 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Putrefy
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 River Kelpie
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Shigeki, Jukai Visionary
  • 1 Sidisi, Brood Tyrant
  • 1 Skull Prophet
  • 1 Smuggler's Surprise
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Springbloom Druid
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 1 Strip Mine
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Tear Asunder
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Teval's Judgment
  • 1 Teval, the Balanced Scale
  • 1 The Gitrog Monster
  • 1 The Scarab God
  • 1 The Wise Mothman
  • 1 Timeless Witness
  • 1 Titans' Nest
  • 1 Tortured Existence
  • 1 Tropical Island
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Welcome the Dead
  • 1 Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver
  • 1 Will of the Sultai
  • 1 Zagoth Triome