Fertilizer and Tears by SpedK

Format: Commander

Commander: Teval, the Balanced Scale

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 50

Deck overview

This Sultai deck is an explosive graveyard-landfall hybrid piloted by Teval, the Balanced Scale. The game plan revolves around accelerating mana on early turns, deploying Teval on Turn 3, and attacking on Turn 4 to mill cards, ramp lands directly from the graveyard, and generate Zombie Druid tokens. The graveyard functions as a rich card repository filled by high-velocity mill pieces like Hermit Druid, Stinkweed Imp, and Buried Alive. On Turn 5, the deck transitions into a lethal threat state by resolving mass land recursion engines like Lumra, Bellow of the Woods, Aftermath Analyst, or Scapeshift alongside token generators like Field of the Dead and Avenger of Zendikar. With Wonder granting flying, the deck presents a decisive evasive combat finish on Turn 6. Cheap reanimation and protection from Sylvan Safekeeper give the deck strong operational resilience against removal.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait
  • 1 Aftermath Analyst
  • 1 Alchemist's Refuge
  • 1 Altar of Bhaal // Bone Offering
  • 1 Analyze the Pollen
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Avenger of Zendikar
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Cache Grab
  • 1 Circle of the Land Druid
  • 1 Colossal Grave-Reaver
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crawl from the Cellar
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Dina's Guidance
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Dryad's Revival
  • 1 Eerie Soultender
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Ertai Resurrected
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fanatic of Rhonas
  • 1 Field of Ruin
  • 1 Field of the Dead
  • 1 Flare of Denial
  • 1 Flooded Grove
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Foreboding Landscape
  • 3 Forest
  • 1 Glimpse the Unthinkable
  • 1 Golgari Grave-Troll
  • 1 Grist, Voracious Larva // Grist, the Plague Swarm
  • 1 Hedron Crab
  • 1 Hermit Druid
  • 1 Ilysian Caryatid
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Lasyd Prowler
  • 1 Lazotep Quarry
  • 1 Life from the Loam
  • 1 Lively Dirge
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Lluwen, Imperfect Naturalist
  • 1 Lotus Cobra
  • 1 Lumra, Bellow of the Woods
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Memorial to Folly
  • 1 Mossborn Hydra
  • 1 Nature's Rhythm
  • 1 Nissa, Resurgent Animist
  • 1 Nurturing Peatland
  • 1 Opulent Palace
  • 1 Overflowing Basin
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Overlord of the Balemurk
  • 1 Plaza of Heroes
  • 1 Polukranos, Unchained
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Scapeshift
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Shifting Woodland
  • 1 Skull Prophet
  • 1 Smuggler's Surprise
  • 1 Spore Frog
  • 1 Stinkweed Imp
  • 1 Stitch Together
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Sylvan Safekeeper
  • 1 Tatyova, Benthic Druid
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Teval, the Balanced Scale
  • 1 Timeless Witness
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vengeful Pharaoh
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Waterlogged Grove
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wonder
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth