Teval

Format: Commander

Commander: Teval, the Balanced Scale

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 20

Deck overview

The deck uses Teval, the Balanced Scale as a graveyard-and-landfall engine. Teval mills three whenever it attacks, returns a land tapped, and creates a Zombie whenever cards leave the graveyard. The surrounding shell supports this with Muldrotha, the Gravetide, The Gitrog Monster, Ramunap Excavator, Life from the Loam, Tatyova, Benthic Druid, and several reanimation spells. Early turns generally develop lands and two-mana ramp, with Teval becoming operational around Turn 5. The deck then builds value rather than presenting an early lethal threat. Its strongest turns involve repeated land entry, creature recursion, Zombie production, and draw from Kishla Skimmer or Teval's Judgment. However, the list has no compact supported win, no infinite combo, and limited protection. Large spells such as Living Death and Rise of the Dark Realms can produce powerful boards, but their access and finishing damage are inconsistent. The deck is therefore a resilient casual-to-high-power value deck, not a reliable competitive finisher.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Abundant Countryside
• 1 Aftermath Analyst
• 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
• 1 Altar of Dementia
• 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
• 1 Arcane Denial
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Assassin's Trophy
• 1 Azusa, Lost but Seeking
• 1 Bloodghast
• 1 Bojuka Bog
• 1 Buried Alive
• 1 Chromatic Lantern
• 1 Command Beacon
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Conduit of Worlds
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Crop Rotation
• 1 Crux of Fate
• 1 Crypt of Agadeem
• 1 Deathcap Glade
• 1 Diabolic Intent
• 1 Dina's Guidance
• 1 Dreamroot Cascade
• 1 Drowned Catacomb
• 1 Drownyard Temple
• 1 Eldrazi Monument
• 1 Essence Anchor
• 1 Eternal Witness
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Fetid Pools
• 1 Field of Ruin
• 1 Field of the Dead
• 1 Foreboding Landscape
• 4 Forest
• 1 Garruk's Uprising
• 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
• 1 Harrow
• 1 Haunted Mire
• 1 Hedge Shredder
• 1 Hinterland Harbor
• 1 Icetill Explorer
• 1 Insidious Roots
• 1 Island
• 1 Kishla Skimmer
• 1 Kotis, Sibsig Champion
• 1 Lethal Scheme
• 1 Life from the Loam
• 1 Living Death
• 1 Llanowar Wastes
• 1 Lost Monarch of Ifnir
• 1 Memorial to Folly
• 1 Meren of Clan Nel Toth
• 1 Metamorphosis Fanatic
• 1 Muldrotha, the Gravetide
• 1 Nasty End
• 1 Nature's Lore
• 1 Negate
• 1 Nephalia Drownyard
• 1 Opulent Palace
• 1 Profane Command
• 1 Putrefy
• 1 Ramunap Excavator
• 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
• 1 River Kelpie
• 1 Roadside Reliquary
• 1 Shipwreck Marsh
• 1 Sidisi, Brood Tyrant
• 1 Six
• 1 Smuggler's Surprise
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Springbloom Druid
• 1 Stitch Together
• 1 Stitcher's Supplier
• 1 Sunken Hollow
• 2 Swamp
• 1 Sylvan Library
• 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
• 1 Talisman of Curiosity
• 1 Talisman of Resilience
• 1 Tam, Mindful First-Year
• 1 Tam, Observant Sequencer // Deep Sight
• 1 Tatyova, Benthic Druid
• 1 Tear Asunder
• 1 Terramorphic Expanse
• 1 Teval's Judgment
• 1 Teval, the Balanced Scale
• 1 The Gitrog Monster
• 1 Timeless Witness
• 1 Vile Entomber
• 1 Viridescent Bog
• 1 War Room
• 1 Will of the Sultai
• 1 Wonder
• 1 Woodland Cemetery
• 1 Yavimaya Coast