Reanimator by Elderdruid33

Format: Commander

Commander: Teval, the Balanced Scale

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 45

Deck overview

This deck is a Sultai graveyard reanimator strategy helmed by Teval, the Balanced Scale. The game plan focuses on filling the graveyard rapidly through self-mill and dedicated creature tutoring, turning the graveyard into a second hand. Early turns establish mana velocity with low-cost ramp such as Sol Ring, Arcane Signet, and Sakura-Tribe Elder before deploying Teval on Turn 3 or 4. When Teval attacks, it mills three cards, recurs a land tapped, and produces 2/2 Zombie Druid tokens whenever cards leave the graveyard. The mid-game leverages powerful tutors like Buried Alive and Entomb to plant game-ending creatures in the graveyard. The primary lethal line casts Victimize or Reanimate to deploy Lord of Extinction and Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord, sacrificing the massive Elemental to drain the entire table for lethal damage simultaneously. Backed by solid interaction and recursion engines, the deck presents high inevitability.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Ruins
  • 1 Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archenemy's Charm
  • 1 Archon of Cruelty
  • 1 Avacyn, Angel of Horror
  • 1 Banner of Kinship
  • 1 Bayou
  • 1 Beast Whisperer
  • 1 Bogwater Lumaret
  • 1 Brawn
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Campfire
  • 1 Colossal Grave-Reaver
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conduit of Worlds
  • 1 Consuming Aberration
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Darksteel Angel
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dina's Guidance
  • 1 Disciple of Bolas
  • 1 Doubling Season
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Emeritus of Abundance // Regrowth
  • 1 Endless Ranks of the Dead
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Essence Anchor
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Filth
  • 1 Flusterstorm
  • 4 Forest
  • 1 Golgari Rot Farm
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Hedron Crab
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
  • 1 Kishla Skimmer
  • 1 Kotis, Sibsig Champion
  • 1 Kotis, the Fangkeeper
  • 1 Lord of Extinction
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Memorial to Folly
  • 1 Meren of Clan Nel Toth
  • 1 Millikin
  • 1 Mithril Coat
  • 1 Multani, Yavimaya's Avatar
  • 1 My Precious // Allure of Power
  • 1 Nyx Weaver
  • 1 Ob Nixilis, the Fallen
  • 1 Opulent Palace
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Quandrix Charm
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rise from the Grave
  • 1 River Kelpie
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Shigeki, Jukai Visionary
  • 1 Skull Prophet
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spore Frog
  • 1 Springbloom Druid
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Tear Asunder
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Teval's Judgment
  • 1 Teval, the Balanced Scale
  • 1 Timeless Witness
  • 1 Troop of Ponies
  • 1 Tropical Island
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vastlands Scavenger // Bind to Life
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wear Down
  • 1 Wonder
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
  • 1 Zombify