Graveyard Landfall by user1661210

Format: Commander

Commander: Teval, the Balanced Scale

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 62

Deck overview

This deck is a high-power Sultai Landfall-Graveyard Midrange-Combo strategy led by Teval, the Balanced Scale. The deck blends explosive fast mana, extensive self-mill, and resilient land recursion with a compact win condition. Its primary route to victory executes on Turn 4 via the format-defining Thassa's Oracle and Demonic Consultation combo, winning instantly on the stack with zero response cycles. When shifting into midrange play, Teval, the Balanced Scale generates continuous board presence by milling cards and generating 2/2 Zombie tokens whenever cards leave the graveyard. Heavy land-centric engines like Lumra, Bellow of the Woods, The Gitrog Monster, Life from the Loam, and Field of the Dead produce overwhelming mana and token swarms. The deck boasts top-tier permanent removal with Assassin's Trophy, Deadly Rollick, and Cyclonic Rift, alongside elite card engines like The One Ring and Necropotence. Its chief weakness is a complete absence of stack countermagic.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait
  • 1 Aftermath Analyst
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Avenger of Zendikar
  • 1 Azusa, Lost but Seeking
  • 1 Baleful Mastery
  • 1 Bayou
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 City of Traitors
  • 1 Colossal Grave-Reaver
  • 1 Crucible of Worlds
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Deathrite Shaman
  • 1 Demonic Consultation
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Field of the Dead
  • 1 Forest
  • 1 Gaea's Cradle
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Glacial Chasm
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Grim Monolith
  • 1 Hedron Crab
  • 1 Hermit Druid
  • 1 Icetill Explorer
  • 1 Insidious Roots
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Kheru Goldkeeper
  • 1 Life from the Loam
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Lotus Cobra
  • 1 Lumra, Bellow of the Woods
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Meren of Clan Nel Toth
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mox Diamond
  • 1 Muldrotha, the Gravetide
  • 1 Nature's Claim
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
  • 1 Ob Nixilis, the Fallen
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Ramunap Excavator
  • 1 Rapid Hybridization
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Sidisi, Brood Tyrant
  • 1 Six
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Sylvan Safekeeper
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Teval, the Balanced Scale
  • 1 Thassa's Oracle
  • 1 The Gitrog Monster
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 The Scarab God
  • 1 Time Spiral
  • 1 Tireless Provisioner
  • 1 Tortured Existence
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Tropical Island
  • 1 Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Wastewood Verge
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Wonder
  • 1 Worldly Tutor
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth