Teval Spirit Necromancy by Boke_

Format: Commander

Commander: Teval, the Balanced Scale

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 44

Deck overview

This deck is a Sultai graveyard-centric midrange and combo list commanded by Teval, the Balanced Scale. The primary game plan accelerates mana on the opening turns to deploy Teval ahead of curve by Turn 3 or 4. Once operational, Teval attacks to self-mill and return lands directly to the battlefield, generating 2/2 Zombie Druid tokens whenever cards leave the graveyard. The deck leverages heavy Spirit and Arcane synergies alongside powerful engines like Insidious Roots, Six, and Conduit of Worlds to establish overwhelming card advantage and board presence. The critical win condition relies on Iname, Death Aspect to dump the deck's entire suite of Spirit creatures into the graveyard, setting up a decisive mass reanimation spell like Patriarch's Bidding to flood the board and drain the table with Kokusho, the Evening Star. Alternatively, the deck can close the game via infinite leave-graveyard sacrifice loops using Phyrexian Altar and Gravecrawler.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Cauldron of Essence
  • 1 Chalk Outline
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conduit of Worlds
  • 1 Crypt Ghast
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Deep Analysis
  • 1 Devouring Greed
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Dredger's Insight
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Eerie Soultender
  • 1 Elder Pine of Jukai
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Flooded Grove
  • 11 Forest
  • 1 Geistlight Snare
  • 1 Ghost-Lit Warder
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Harrow
  • 1 Hedge Maze
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Ideas Unbound
  • 1 Iname, Death Aspect
  • 1 Iname, Life Aspect
  • 1 Infernal Kirin
  • 1 Insidious Roots
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Kairi, the Swirling Sky
  • 1 Kira, Great Glass-Spinner
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Kokusho, the Evening Star
  • 1 Kura, the Boundless Sky
  • 1 Life from the Loam
  • 1 Loam Dweller
  • 1 Memorial to Folly
  • 1 Mortal Combat
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Nether Traitor
  • 1 Patriarch's Bidding
  • 1 Petalmane Baku
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Promised Kannushi
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Rattlechains
  • 1 Rending Vines
  • 1 Resentful Revelation
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Seedborn Muse
  • 1 Sekki, Seasons' Guide
  • 1 Sidisi, Brood Tyrant
  • 1 Six
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soulless Revival
  • 1 Stitch Together
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 14 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Teval's Judgment
  • 1 Teval, the Balanced Scale
  • 1 The Ancient One
  • 1 Thief of Hope
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Tormod, the Desecrator
  • 1 Tortured Existence
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Underground Mortuary
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Willow Geist
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery