Teval by user7593922

Format: Commander

Commander: Teval, the Balanced Scale

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 39

Deck overview

This Sultai deck is helmed by Teval, the Balanced Scale and focuses on self-mill, land recursion, token production, and aristocrats drain. The game plan centers on using early self-mill tools like Life from the Loam, Mesmeric Orb, and Hedron Crab to fill the graveyard with lands and creature payoffs. Once Teval enters the battlefield, attacking returns lands directly to play while generating an army of 2/2 Zombie Druid tokens. The deck turns this engine into victory by combining wide token swarms with evasion from Wonder in the graveyard and life drain from Syr Konrad, the Grim, The Scarab God, and The Meathook Massacre. A robust suite of low-cost counterspells, Heroic Intervention, and Deadly Rollick shields the board and disrupts opposing plans, while mass reanimation like Living Death provides high resilience against board wipes.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Amulet of Vigor
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Awaken the Honored Dead
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Cauldron of Essence
  • 1 Colossal Grave-Reaver
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conduit of Worlds
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crawling Sensation
  • 1 Crucible of Worlds
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Essence Anchor
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Forbidden Alchemy
  • 10 Forest
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Glacierwood Siege
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Harrow
  • 1 Hedge Shredder
  • 1 Hedron Crab
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Icetill Explorer
  • 10 Island
  • 1 Kheru Goldkeeper
  • 1 Kishla Skimmer
  • 1 Life from the Loam
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Mesmeric Orb
  • 1 Muldrotha, the Gravetide
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Opulent Palace
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
  • 1 Primal Witchstalker
  • 1 River Kelpie
  • 1 Smuggler's Surprise
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 10 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Teval's Judgment
  • 1 Teval, the Balanced Scale
  • 1 The Master of Lake-town
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 The Scarab God
  • 1 Thranduil, Sindarin Liege // Silvan Rally
  • 1 Through the Forest Gate
  • 1 Treasure Cruise
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Walk-In Closet // Forgotten Cellar
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Will of the Sultai
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Wonder
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Zuran Orb