Teval lands by user5465680

Format: Commander

Commander: Teval, the Balanced Scale

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 43

Deck overview

This Sultai deck is helmed by Teval, the Balanced Scale and focuses on maximizing lands entering and leaving the battlefield and graveyard. The deck uses early green ramp to accelerate mana production, deploying Teval or redundant recursion engines by Turn 4. Once established, the deck mills cards, replays utility lands, and creates a growing army of Zombie Druid tokens. The primary route to victory involves casting Scapeshift, Splendid Reclamation, or Lumra, Bellow of the Woods to trigger Field of the Dead and assemble the Dark Depths plus Thespian's Stage combo, producing a 20/20 flying indestructible Marit Lage. The deck also features oppressive land denial through recurring Strip Mine activations and Gilt-Leaf Archdruid, which can steal all lands from opponents using Teval's Druid tokens. Resilient graveyard mechanics, land-based card draw engines, and Sylvan Safekeeper ensure the strategy maintains immense mid-to-late game inevitability across the table.

Decklist (101 cards)

  • 1 Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait
  • 1 Aftermath Analyst
  • 1 Ancient Greenwarden
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashaya, Soul of the Wild
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Avenger of Zendikar
  • 1 Azusa, Lost but Seeking
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conduit of Worlds
  • 1 Constant Mists
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Crucible of Worlds
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dark Depths
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Dryad Arbor
  • 1 Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
  • 1 Elvish Reclaimer
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Exploration
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Field of the Dead
  • 4 Forest
  • 1 Gilt-Leaf Archdruid
  • 1 Golgari Signet
  • 1 Harrow
  • 1 Hedge Maze
  • 1 Insidious Roots
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Life from the Loam
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Lotus Cobra
  • 1 Lumra, Bellow of the Woods
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Muldrotha, the Gravetide
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Oracle of Mul Daya
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Ramunap Excavator
  • 1 Realms Uncharted
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Scapeshift
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Shifting Woodland
  • 1 Simic Signet
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Six
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spelunking
  • 1 Splendid Reclamation
  • 1 Springheart Nantuko
  • 1 Squandered Resources
  • 1 Strip Mine
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Sylvan Safekeeper
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Talisman of Curiosity
  • 1 Talisman of Resilience
  • 1 Tatyova, Benthic Druid
  • 1 Teval's Judgment
  • 1 Teval, the Balanced Scale
  • 1 The Gitrog Monster
  • 1 The Scarab God
  • 1 Thespian's Stage
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Tireless Provisioner
  • 1 Titania, Protector of Argoth
  • 1 Torment of Hailfire
  • 1 Underground Mortuary
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Vesuva
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Wasteland
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wight of the Reliquary
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 World Shaper
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
  • 1 Zagoth Triome
  • 1 Zuran Orb